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Meta reportedly delayed the rollout of its flagship artificial intelligence model called Behemoth.The company internally planned to release Behemoth in April, later pushed the release date to June, and has now delayed the launch at least until fall, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (May 15), citing unnamed sources.The company has not publicly committed to a timeline for the product, the report said.Meta did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’ request for comment.The launch delays have been caused by struggles to improve the AI model and by concerns that the model’s performance won’t live up to that promoted in public statements, according to the report.In public statements, Meta has said that Behemoth already outperforms similar models from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI on certain tests, per the report.When releasing the latest versions of its Llama AI model April 5, Meta said in a press release: “We’re also previewing Llama 4 Behemoth, one of the smartest LLMs in the world and our most powerful yet to serve as a teacher for our new models.”Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said April 30 during a first-quarter earnings call that the company will increase its spending for AI data centers this year as it embeds the technology more deeply throughout its family of apps.The company plans to record $64 billion to $72 billion in capital expenditures, up from $60 billion to $65 billion, while striving to meet demand for computing resources.“The major theme right now, of course, is how AI is transforming everything we do,” Zuckerberg said. “The opportunities ahead for us are staggering. To that end, we are accelerating some of our efforts to bring capacity online more quickly this year, as well as some longer-term projects that will give us flexibility to add capacity in the coming years.”Meta’s open-source AI models that were released April 5 — Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick — are a shot across the bow to rivals’ more expensive closed models and good news for businesses hoping to lower the cost of deploying AI, PYMNTS reported April 9.For all PYMNTS AI coverage, subscribe to the daily AI Newsletter

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. You.com has launched ARI Enterprise today, claiming its advanced research platform defeats OpenAI’s comparable offerings in 76% of head-to-head tests and achieves industry-leading accuracy on independent benchmarks.The upgraded Advanced Research Insights (ARI) platform scored 80% accuracy on the FRAMES benchmark — a research evaluation standard co-developed by Harvard, Google, and Meta — putting it ahead of offerings from major competitors.“The number one thing is that it just goes into more depth,” Richard Socher, You.com’s CEO and former chief scientist at Salesforce, told me in an interview. “Our users are telling us things like, ‘Oh, this actually found things that I could not find online.’ So that depth combined with the accuracy, that’s sort of the power of it.”ARI outperforms competitors on Harvard-backed FRAMES evaluation, scoring 80% accuracy. (Credit: You.com)AI search giants battle for dominance as deep research revolution acceleratesARI Enterprise enters an increasingly competitive field where tech giants and AI startups are racing to dominate what some call the “new browser wars.” Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic, and others are all developing their own deep research agents, which are rapidly becoming how people access and synthesize information across the web.Unlike most competitors targeting general or multi-purpose use cases, You.com has deliberately focused on enterprise applications, particularly for financial analysts and management consultants who require extraordinarily thorough and accurate research.“We didn’t see any change [from Google] and so we decided someone’s got to do it,” Socher told CNET in a previous interview about launching You.com in 2020. Now, with ARI Enterprise, the company is doubling down on its specialized focus.“This sort of insane, untouchable monopoly that Google had for 20 years, those days are over,” Socher told Business Insider in March