U.S. markets panicked on Monday over hypothesis that DeepSeek’s AI models would crush demand for GPUs, with Nvidia’s inventory dropping almost 20%.

However Meta isn’t backing off, with its CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledging that the tech big would make investments “very closely” in AI — even “a whole lot of billions of {dollars}” — over the long run, he stated throughout Meta’s first-quarter earnings name on Wednesday.

Zuckerberg already announced final week that Meta would spend greater than $60 billion in 2025 alone on capital expenditures, totally on information facilities.

In response to an analyst’s query about DeepSeek’s impression on Meta’s AI spending, Zuckerberg stated spending closely on AI infrastructure will proceed to be a “strategic benefit” for Meta. 

Meta considers DeepSeek a brand new competitor and is studying from it, nevertheless it’s “manner too early” to inform if demand for chips will cease rising as they continue to be essential for inference functions, Zuckerberg stated, noting that Meta has billions of customers.

“At this level, I might guess that the flexibility to construct out that form of infrastructure goes to be a significant benefit for each the standard of the service and having the ability to serve the dimensions that we wish to,” Zuckerberg stated.

Meta’s aim with its subsequent mannequin, Llama 4, is to make it the world’s best, even in comparison with closed fashions (like ChatGPT), Zuckerberg stated. He added that he expects it to have agentic capabilities — one thing each OpenAI and Anthropic have moved into — together with multimodal ones.

“Our aim with Llama 3 was to make open supply aggressive with closed fashions,” he stated. “And our aim for Llama 4 is to steer.”

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