Meta's chief AI scientist and others have praised the new open-source reasoning model released by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

The inside is a sad sight with month-old Thanksgiving leftovers, a carton of eggs, soda, condiments, a tub of Greek yogurt, and a big jug of maple syrup. Meta-AI-as-John-Cena replies that I can make a “variety of breakfast dishes,” such as “scrambled eggs, omelets, or yogurt parfaits.”

I used 7 prompts and went head-to-head with Perplexity AI and Meta AI to determine which AI assistant excels in various tasks.

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Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms have been in panic mode. In recent days, leaders of some of the company’s AI teams openly worried that new conversational AI made by a Chinese hedge fund meant Meta was falling behind in the AI race.

Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, said DeepSeek's success with R1 said more about the value of open-source than Chinese competition.

The company plans to spend up to $65 billion on infrastructure for AI in 2025, and is planning a data center with a footprint almost as large as Manhattan.

DeepSeek’s latest models, created by a small company with limited resources, are already beating many of the leading AI models in the United States.

Meta Platforms Inc. plans to invest as much as $65 billion on projects related to artificial intelligence in 2025, including building a giant new data center and increasing hiring in AI teams, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Friday.

Chinese startup DeepSeek is the talk of the town as its affordable R1 models challenge the supremacy of ChatGPT.

DeepSeek's large-language-model launch could wipe nearly $1 trillion in market value from the biggest U.S. tech companies.