Meta downplays DeepSeek, but may be copying the Chinese AI behind closed doors
There’s no question that DeepSeek stunned the US tech world with its AI revelations this week. The Chinese startup released DeepSeek R1, a reasoning model … The post Meta downplays DeepSeek, but may be copying the Chinese AI behind closed doors appeared first on BGR.
There's no question that DeepSeek stunned the US tech world with its AI revelations this week. The Chinese startup released DeepSeek R1, a reasoning model as good as ChatGPT o1, saying it trained the AI at a fraction of the cost of what OpenAI has to spend. It's all thanks to a new approach and several breakthrough innovations in software.
The stock market shed nearly $1 trillion on Monday, as investors feared that AI hardware spending might slow down now that DeepSeek researchers have found ways to match US innovation without having access to the latest chips. Much of those losses were recovered on Tuesday, however.
As the sky is clearing, it sure looks like it's business as usual for the big players in AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explained why DeepSeek's advances will not slow down the race to buy millions of chips to advance AI development and ultimately reach AGI and beyond. He also showed that DeepSeek's spending on AI is significant despite the software breakthroughs.
Seemingly echoing that chain of thought, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaffirmed his commitment to spending "hundreds of billions of dollars" on AI hardware in the long term. The comments came during Meta's quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, during which Zuckerberg said he also wants the upcoming Meta AI Llama 4 model to lead the market rather than follow it.
At the same time, reports say that Meta is already studying DeepSeek and might use the Chinese AI to help power its own advertising products.
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