Mark Zuckerberg: DeepSeek shows why U.S. must be AI’s ‘global open-source standard’; no reason to rethink spending

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Mark Zuckerberg thinks China’s DeepSeek AI models have some “novel” innovations he hopes to emulate. But it hasn’t given him second thoughts about his mission to plow hundreds of billions of dollars into Meta’s AI infrastructure.

“I continue to think that investing very heavily in capex [capital expenditure] and infrastructure is going to be a strategic advantage over time,” the Meta CEO and cofounder said during the company’s Q4 earnings call on Wednesday.