"We regularly evaluate all competitive models": DeepSeek AI reportedly outperforms Llama's next version, throwing Meta into panic mode with "4 war rooms of engineers" analyzing its cost-effective AI success

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc.

With the rapid emergence of Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, top AI labs across the US are getting a run for their money. According to the research paper published by DeepSeek researchers, R1 surpasses proprietary AI models such as OpenAI's o1 reasoning model's capabilities across math, science, and coding at a fraction of the development cost.

Meta's AI lead, Yann LeCun, says DeepSeek AI's immense success and broad adoption can be attributed to the model's open-source nature. "Open-source models surpass proprietary ones," the AI lead explained, reiterating the importance of open-source models and DeepSeek potentially bringing OpenAI's original founding mission back to life.