Meta and other AI competitors are facing challenges from China's DeepSeek as its new AI model outperforms competitors at lower costs.
Meta's AI lead scientist, Yann LeCun, recently commented on DeepSeek's impressive AI milestone, reiterating the importance of open-source AI models as the Chinese startup's recently launched app dethrones ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app in the US.
The $60 to $65 billion in projected capital expenditures this year is more than double the $27 billion Meta spent in 2023.
Meta says it is rolling out improvements to Meta AI, including the ability to tap profile data from Meta's various apps.
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.
Meta’s Yann LeCun asserts open-source AI is the future, as the Chinese open-source model DeepSeek challenges ChatGPT and Llama, reshaping the AI race.
Meta AI is an artificial intelligence assistant that rolled out for Facebook, Messenger and Instagram in 2023. It has a similar feature set as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Meta AI can search the web for information, translate text, generate images and help the user with programming tasks. Today’s update adds two new personalization features to the service.
Meta is rolling out a new Memory feature that can record certain details shared with Meta AI chatbot on Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp.
A recent security report revealed that the Meta Llama LLM had a security flaw that could have allowed hackers to breach it.
Recently, the sudden popularity of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek has left industry players in shock, with some comparing it with its rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT and questioning whether it would threaten the dominance of AI leaders such as Nvidia.