Exclusive: Meta tests Avocado 9B and Avocado Mango Agent

Avocado's release has been delayed to at least May 2026; the launch was pushed from March.

Meta is running parallel experiments with multiple Avocado variants and routing some requests through Google's Gemini; leadership has discussed temporarily licensing Gemini.

An internal model selector shows several Avocado configurations under evaluation, including a smaller 9‑billion‑parameter Avocado 9B.

Avocado Mango is a multimodal 'agent'/'sub‑agent' variant capable of image generation; related Avocado items include Avocado TOMM (Tool of many models), Avocado Thinking 5.6, and the text‑only Paricado.

Avocado is expected to be proprietary as Meta shifts away from open‑source under Zuckerberg's mandate, and it would be a meaningful upgrade over current Llama‑based responses for hundreds of millions of users.