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Tech leaders respond to the rapid rise of DeepSeek
Marc Andreessen, Yann LeCunn, and Mark Zuckerberg have all penned what appear to be responses to the Chinese open source model's ascent.
As such, it’s caused no shortage of hand-wringing and existentialism from U.S. and Western bloc techies, who are suddenly doubting OpenAI and the general big tech strategy of throwing more money and more compute (graphics processing units, GPUs, the powerful gaming chips typically used to train AI models) toward the problem of inventing ever more powerful models. And even Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg, Meta AI’s founder and CEO, seemed to seek to counter the rise of DeepSeek with his own post on Facebook promising that a new version of Facebook’s open source AI model family Llama would be “the leading state of the art model” when it is released sometime this year. This is a massive effort, and over the coming years it will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership.
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