Meta has decided internally to stop naming its AI models after fruit, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Business Insider. The change is described as largely a branding decision: fruit-based codenames no longer fit the company's lofty artificial intelligence ambitions. Meta declined to comment on the report.
The shift closes a run that saw Meta's models known inside the company as Watermelon, Avocado and Mango. Watermelon was the internal codename for Meta's latest AI, Wonder Full, which the company described as its first cutting-edge "frontier" model. Meta teased that launch by posting photos of the fruit, and its earlier language and image models carried the Avocado and Mango names.
Meta AI model codenames and the fruit era
Meta's fruit naming was never meant for the public. The codenames stayed internal while the products launched under other branding, but the pattern became recognizable enough that executives joked about it openly.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and AI chief Alexandr Wang discussed the problem on the Cheeky Pint podcast last month. "We're out of fruits," Zuckerberg said, adding that the company would have to switch to a new convention. Wang noted that the only fruit technically larger than the ones already used is the durian — and that it was not a direction they wanted to take.
Meta is not the only company borrowing names from the grocery aisle. OpenAI called one model Garlic internally in 2025, according to The Information, and Google released its Nano Banana image generator that same year.
- Watermelon — internal codename for Meta's latest AI model, Wonder Full, its first "frontier" model
- Avocado — codename used for a previous Meta language model
