Meta AI in panic mode as free open-source DeepSeek gains traction and outperforms for far less
Meta AI in panic mode as free open-source DeepSeek gains traction and outperforms for far less
Why would Meta AI be in "panic mode" when they provide the "service" for free anyway?
OpenAI though, or Anthropic, and others who are "pure player" in AI and do charge for a service might be in a pinch ... BUT even then it requires a lot of resources that the random computer user do not have (e.g. a GPU and a large disk), so that even in such case (sadly, as IMHO self-hosted open-source AI is much saner in most cases, cf my https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence live wiki page) the average consumer would still better pay for a model to run.
Adoption of the product. If the masses pick another software for regular use over Meta, Meta loses (or never gets) all of the traffic they're depending on to pay for their investment and generate further revenue.
I'd be quite curious to know the number of people who see AI as a standalone product. My bet would be very very few. Consequently when Meta provides it as an additional service to what they already offer, via chatbots or generated images or suggestions within post, they shortcut pure players. When they provide that additional service for fee, they undercut them. So... I'm not saying Meta won't see slightly less usage for their own AI services but actual products, e.g. WhatsApp, Instagram, etc then I doubt it. IMHO it's a sensationalist title.
Distinct point but if I was at Meta, or Microsoft, and would want to get more resources, I'd point at the challenge (without saying "panic") of competition, e.g. China, in order to get more GPUs, data centers built, R&D subsidies, anything that make competition look fierce regardless of what I actually, so in that sense, it's a very useful piece for them.
The panic is over how much execs are getting paid and the bloated budgets at meta, while a small team managed to build something that's way more efficient on a tiny budget.