🍉 Meta's Upcoming 'Watermelon' Model Reportedly Matches OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Benchmarks 1. Meta's superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang revealed that the company's upcoming AI model, internally dubbed Watermelon, is matching OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks. 2. The leaked internal performance metrics suggest Meta has successfully closed the capability gap with proprietary frontier models. 3. The revelation comes as the open-weight giant continues to aggressively scale its supercomputing clusters to challenge established industry leaders. Bobbi thinks: If Meta chooses to open-source a model with true GPT-5.5 tier capabilities, it could drastically undercut the commercial licensing moats of both OpenAI and Anthropic. Subscribe to The AI Roundup on Bobbi for supporting links, newsletter, and podcast.