How China’s DeepSeek may have made Mark Zuckerberg lose faith in Meta’s AI team, and start the biggest-ever talent war in Silicon Valley
Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to defend billions in AI spending as Meta faces its slowest profit growth in two years, with the CEO creating a secretive “Superintelligence lab” after the company’s latest AI model reportedly failed to meet expectations.
Meta’s Llama 4 AI model attempted to copy techniques from Chinese startup DeepSeek but received such poor reception from developers, making Zuckerberg authorize a complete overhaul of the company’s AI strategy, according to sources cited by CNBC and the Financial Times.
