Now I can say it: Had early access to @Meta’s new "Watermelon" for the past few days.

Trick questions didn’t fool it, it followed instructions to the word, and as a coding agent it wrote, ran and checked its own code. Creative writing still a bit dry for my taste, but very very very impressive overall.

From my initial testings its as good as the benchmarks make it look. Meta really nailed it with their model!

P.s.: the benchmarks still surprised me, in a postive way. Didnt see the benchmark evals in advance.