Meta Is Reportedly Scrambling ‘War Rooms’ Of Engineers To Figure Out How DeepSeek’s AI Is Beating Everyone Else At A Fraction Of The Price

Meta has built four “war rooms” staffed with engineers to analyze how Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and its backers High-Flyer Capital Management have reached a significant technological milestone. DeepSeek launched R1 as its chatbot which it stated provides performance equivalent to ChatGPT while costing significantly less. The major capital investments by American tech giants have sparked concerns while pushing Meta’s AI team to speed up their advancements.

Internal reports from The Information show Meta’s AI infrastructure director Mathew Oldham worries that R1 will surpass Meta’s upcoming Llama 4 model before its early 2025 launch. Meta has accelerated its operations after the new developments because the company sent two teams to study DeepSeek’s model training and operational cost reduction methods. Two teams work on discovering DeepSeek’s training data sources while another team investigates potential structural improvements for Llama AI at Meta.

The Meta spokesperson confirmed that the company conducts ongoing evaluations of competitive models throughout its product development cycle. Llama has established the foundational framework for open-source AI models which makes us thrilled to lead the next stage with Llama 4.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared plans to spend between $50 and $65 billion on AI development through the next year while building large data centers and growing its AI research staff. The company’s announcement emerged as OpenAI and its partners dedicated $500 billion to the White House-backed Stargate initiative which faces growing competition. The future direction of the AI revolution will depend on Meta’s capacity to adapt to DeepSeek’s advancements as competition intensifies.

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