{"id":980375,"date":"2025-12-15T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980375"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:30:04","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-million-dollar-hires-are-under-pressure-to-deliver-after-llama-4s-botched-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/15\/mark-zuckerbergs-million-dollar-hires-are-under-pressure-to-deliver-after-llama-4s-botched-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s million-dollar hires are under pressure to deliver after Llama 4\u2019s \u2018botched launch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s multi-million-dollar elite AI team is facing a major test, as the newly-hired engineers and leaders are under intense pressure to deliver competitive products. The company is said to be working on Avocado \u2013 new Llama successor and frontier AI model \u2013 which is being developed inside TBD lab. Reportedly, the pressure has intensified following the \u2018botched\u2019 launch of Meta\u2019s Llama 4 AI model, which was hit by reports of underwhelming real-world performance, poor coding ability and allegations of rigged benchmark scores.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC recently reported that Alexandr Wang, chief AI officer of Meta AI, is facing the heat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s multi-million-dollar elite AI team is facing a major test, as the newly-hired engineers and leaders are under intense pressure to deliver competitive products. The company is said to be working on Avocado \u2013 new Llama successor and frontier AI model \u2013 which is being developed inside TBD lab. Reportedly, the pressure has intensified following the \u2018botched\u2019 launch of Meta\u2019s Llama 4 AI model, which was hit by reports of underwhelming real-world performance, poor coding ability and allegations of rigged benchmark scores. CNBC recently reported that Alexandr Wang, chief AI officer of Meta AI, is facing the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}