Goal mobilizes “war rooms” to face Chinese Ai Revolution

Zuckerberg company mobilizes elite teams to understand how DeepSeek, Chinese startup, created a revolutionary AI at very low costs. Is it the end of American hegemony in artificial intelligence?

Mark Zuckerberg’s company, set up four “War rooms” with engineers to understand how a Chinese Startup of Artificial Intelligence (IA) has been able to launch a technology that can rival its own developments, according to a report by The Information.

A DeepSeekIA Startup supported by the hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Managementthis month launched a version of his chatbot, the R1which, according to the company, has comparable performance for competing models, such as the ChatGPTbut at a significantly lower cost.

This potentially revolutionary open source technology has in check billionaire investments in US companies and left the AI ​​of the AI ​​of the maximum warning AI.

Mathew OldhamDirector of AI of the AI ​​of the Goal, would have told colleagues that the latest model of DeepSeek could even surpass the next version of the Llamathe AI ​​da Goal, which Zuckerberg claimed to be scheduled for release in “Beginning of 2025”according to the report of the The Information On Sunday. The publication cited two employees with direct knowledge of the efforts of the goal to keep up with the advancement of the competition.

Of the four working groups created by the goal to respond to Deepseek’s potential advancement, two teams will try to decipher how High-Flyer has reduced AI training and operation costs, with the objective of applying these tactics to Llama, according to an anonymous employee of Goal quoted by the report.

The other two teams have specific missions: one will investigate what data data has used to train its model, while the other will analyze how Llama can restructure its models based on the characteristics of Deepseek technology, said the The Information.

“We regularly evaluate all competing models in our development process, from the formation of the Generative AI Group,” a Goal spokesman told The Information. “Llama has been critical to establishing the open source AI models ecosystem, and we are excited to expand this leadership with the launch of Llama 4.”

On Friday, Zuckerberg announced that the goal plans to invest until US $ 65 billion In projects related to AI next year, including the construction of a large data center and the hiring of more professionals in the field.

The announcement occurred a few days after the Openaiin partnership with SoftBank, Oracle and other companies, revealed an AI infrastructure project supported by the White House, called Stargatewhich provides for the construction of dozens of new data centers in the US, with an estimated investment in US $ 500 billion.