On Tuesday, Meta announced a multiyear deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars. Blackwell GPUs and Vera Rubin rack-scale systems, millions of chips flowing into data centers across 26 U.S. sites, with Grace CPUs arriving as standalone deployments for the first time. On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Meta's flagship AI model, code-named Avocado, cannot keep up with Google's Gemini 3.0. The release has been pushed from March to at least May.
Same week. Same company.
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