Zuckerberg: Meta already training post-Watermelon models on its 1GW Prometheus cluster
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-09
Mark Zuckerberg revealed on the Sources Podcast (via Alex Heath's channel) that Meta has moved into training post-Watermelon models.
- Watermelon is the unreleased successor to Avocado/Spark and is reportedly Meta's biggest model yet, trained with roughly 10X more compute.
- Quote: "We're using Prometheus (Meta's 1-gigawatt AI compute cluster) to now scale the post-watermelon models. Um we're past watermelon."
- Relayed by rohanpaulai with a link to the full video.
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