Heavy! Meta Zuckerberg ordered to abandon "open source AI" and switch to Alibaba Qwen to train "Avocado" paid artificial intelligence
According to the latest market news, Meta CEO Zuckerberg has officially instructed the company to abandon its long-term strategy of "comprehensive open source" artificial intelligence. In the future, the most advanced AI models will adopt a charging model rather than being free and open to the public.
(Preliminary summary: Zuckerberg surrendered? Meta reportedly plans to cut 30% of the budget of the Metaverse and lay off employees as soon as January next year, META rose 4%)
(Background supplement: Meta Zuckerberg was busy in vain! He gave a salary of over 100 million US dollars, and left three AI geniuses in two months)
According to the latest market news, Meta CEO Zuckerberg has officially instructed the company to abandon the long-term strategy of "comprehensive open source" artificial intelligence, and will be the most advanced in the future. The AI model will adopt a paid model rather than being free and open to the public.
BBG: Zuckerberg Directs Pivot Away From Open Source AI At Meta
BBG: Refined New AI Model Using Alibaba's Qwen
BBG: Meta Developing Model Codenamed 'Avocado' That It May Charge For
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) December 10, 2025
According to multiple people familiar with the matter, the next-generation large-scale language model currently being developed by Meta (internally codenamed "Avocado") is fine-tuned based on Alibaba's Qwen series of open source models. Relevant news pointed out that Zuckerberg made it clear in an internal meeting that Meta must prioritize the pursuit of "superintelligence" rather than insisting on being completely open source. After the release of Llama 4, the market adoption rate was not as good as expected, and the rapid advancement of competitors such as OpenAI made Meta executives decide to change course.
It is worth noting that analysts pointed out that Meta chose Alibaba’s Qwen as the fine-tuning base, showing that China’s open source model has gained international recognition in terms of performance and multi-language capabilities. Affected by this news, Alibaba US stocks (BABA) rose before the market opened, while Meta (META) fell slightly. Analysts believe that although Meta's move can accelerate product iteration and commercialization in the short term, it may damage its leadership position in the global developer community.
