Meta isn't naming its AI models after fruit anymore

Meta is done alongside fruits.

The social media elephantine has internally decided to halt naming its AI models following fruit, a individual acquainted alongside the matter said.

It's mostly a branding decision, as fruit-based codenames don't chime fine alongside Meta's lofty AI ambitions, the individual added.

"Watermelon" was the inner codename for Meta's latest AI, Wonder Full, which Meta stated was its archetypal cutting-edge "frontier" model. Meta teased its initiate by posting photos of the fruit.

Meta dubbed its former tongue and depiction models "Avocado" and "Mango," respectively.

Meta declined to comment.

Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and AI chief, Alexandr Wang, joked on the Cheeky Pint podcast final duration that they've run out of create names for their AI.

"We're out of fruits," Zuckerberg said. "So we're going to have to toggle to a new convention."

"I think the lone create that is technically larger is the durian, and you don't desire to go to the durian," Wang said.

Meta isn't the lone tech business to name its AI products following items you can buy in a market store.

In 2025, OpenAI dubbed one example "Garlic" internally, The Information reported. Google additionally released its "Nano Banana" depiction generator in 2025.

More recently, as AI models get additional powerful, it's rotate into trendy to provision them additional awe-inspiring names, akin Anthropic's Mythos or OpenAI's Astra.

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