Ed Ludlow

Coming up, Meta making moves toward a new AI model from open to close.

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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is shifting the company's focus toward a new artificial intelligence model that can make it some money.

One new model is expected to launch next spring, potentially as a closed model that Meta can sell access to.

This would mark Meta's biggest move yet away from open source models.

The reporting comes from Bloomberg Tech's Riley Griffin.

There's a case study.

The case study is Avocado.

So let's start there.

This is all what we're hearing from sources.

But my understanding is originally Avocado might have been an open source model.

It's now not going to be based on our reporting.

Take it from there and then we'll get into the bigger picture.

But closed is the way they are leaning at the moment.

And this is a really important distinction because it points to a monetization strategy.

And as you know, Meta is under pressure to show that it can return on its multi hundred billion dollar investment in AI.

And this is one path towards that.

There's detail in the reporting about how Alexander Wang, who's basically the lieutenant leading the AI lab effort, is pro-closed model.