Meta is developing a new image and video for release in 2026, the report says

It’s all on top of Meta, where the company is developing new AI models under its own lab led by Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang. The company is now working on an image and video project called “Mango” along with a new in-house brand known as “Avocado,” The Wall Street Journal report.

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 model.

Wang said that Meta wants to make text-based characters better by writing and reviewing new global models that understand visuals and can think, plan, and act without needing to be taught anything.

Meta has recently fallen behind its competitors, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, in the AI ​​race. The AI ​​division of the company noticed very much to renovate this year, which included leadership changing and killing researchers from other top companies. However, several cha researchers who joined Meta SuperIntelligence Labs (MSL) he has already left the company.

Last month, the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann Lecun, he also announced that he was leaving to make his beginning.

Trim they don’t have the best AI so far. In fact, Meta AI’s assistant numbers are boosted by the company’s social network that hosts billions of users, as the company puts the assistant in its software searches.

This means that the first projects and models from MSL will have a lot of rides.