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It\u2019s all hands on deck at Meta, as the company develops new AI models under its superintelligence lab led by Scale AI co-founder, Alexandr Wang. The company is now working on an image and video model codenamed \u201cMango\u201d along with a new text-based model internally known as \u201cAvocado,\u201d The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n The tech giant plans to release the new models in the first half of 2026, the publication said, citing an internal Q&A at Meta on Thursday, where Wang and chief product officer Chris Cox unveiled the new roadmap.<\/p>\n Wang had said Meta aims to make the text-based model better at coding while also exploring new world models that understand visual information and can reason, plan, and act without needing to be trained on every possibility.<\/p>\n Meta has more recently fallen behind its rivals, like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, in the AI race. The company\u2019s AI division saw significant<\/a> restructurings<\/a> this year, which included leadership<\/a> changes and the poaching of researchers from other top companies. However, several<\/a> of the researchers<\/a> who joined Meta SuperIntelligence Labs (MSL) have already left the company<\/a>. <\/p>\n Last month, the company\u2019s chief AI scientist, Yann Lecun, also announced that he\u2019s leaving<\/a> to create his own startup. <\/p>\n