Meta AI chief pushes back on agent timeline concerns

At the same July 2 town hall, Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang countered Zuckerberg’s cautious tone, claiming the upcoming Watermelon model matches GPT-5.5 on internal benchmarks and that a Claude Opus-class coding model is coming soon. Bloomberg separately reported Meta is exploring a cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity. Wang’s performance claims remain internal benchmarks not independently verified.