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Riley Griffin

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Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

Yeah.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

Essentially, Meta is working on this Avocado model.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

That is the code name internally.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

And they have not officially decided whether it will be open or closed.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

Yeah, I mean, things we heard from in and around the company.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

For one, employees after July were told that they should not be talking publicly about open source as Meta reset its strategy.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

Remember, Mark Zuckerberg brought in all of these expensive researchers and had to reset after a very disappointing release of Lama 4.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

And so this is a resetting of the strategy under Alex's leadership with close involvement from Mark Zuckerberg, who sits quite close to Alex.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

And the pressure is leading to tensions, too.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

But that steer to employees internally to not be speaking publicly about open source should be a big tell.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

Yes, one key detail we've reported is that this Cloud Matrix 384 system, which can link together hundreds of chips, was a key rationale underpinning the White House's logic to allow these advanced chips, which are better on a per-chip basis than what Chinese companies are capable of.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

However, as was made clear in our reporting, the White House is looking at this more at a system level,

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

And their understanding was that Huawei's systems are actually advancing quite quickly.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

So that was the rationale here.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

And though this is a paradigm shift from previous administrations, during which Huawei's advancements were an impetus to actually crack down and further restrict those Chinese companies, now that same evidence is being used as a reason to loosen controls and kick off this new strategy of selling NVIDIA chips to China.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

Now, one interesting thing from the report, Jensen Huang has said before that these Blackwell racks are just a bit too heavy to be feasible to smuggle, but this report from the information did say that the smuggling for DeepSeek took place in these sort of eight-chip segments that could potentially fit in a suitcase.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

It really is, Ed.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

So what we found is that this term, Netflix, was introduced a couple years ago by some detractors when the company was rated...

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

high yields.

Bloomberg Tech
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO

They really built their business around borrowing heavily in the junk bond market.

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