--- title: Meta says it caught OpenAI. One thing is missing. description: Meta's superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang claimed internally that Watermelon, a model still in training, has reached parity with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-says-it-caught-openai-one-thing-is-missing--uaub50vnv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meta says it caught OpenAI. One thing is missing. | daily.dev og:description: Meta's superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang claimed internally that Watermelon, a model still in training, has reached parity with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-says-it-caught-openai-one-thing-is-missing--uaub50vnv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uauB50VNV.png og:image:alt: Meta says it caught OpenAI. One thing is missing. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Meta says it caught OpenAI. One thing is missing. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Meta's superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang claimed internally that Watermelon, a model still in training, has reached parity with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on benchmarks. The claim was made at a company town hall and reported secondhand — no benchmark table, model card, or evaluation harness was provided. The analysis points out that an unverifiable internal claim is essentially a morale exercise, not a scientific result. Further context undermines the narrative: Watermelon reportedly requires 10x the compute of its predecessor to match a model OpenAI has already superseded with GPT-5.6, and this comes the same week Zuckerberg admitted Meta's AI bets haven't paid off yet. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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