Meta sticks with big bet on AI even after DeepSeek shook markets

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Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to spend “hundreds of billions” on artificial intelligence as he seeks to push a dead position to a dominant position in this industry, which led to emptying concerns about the tray of Depsic.
“This will be a really big year,” Zuckerberg said in a call with investors, adding that “this will be intense because we have about 48 weeks to get the path we want to be in artificial intelligence. “
DeadThe shares of more than 2 percent increased in trading in a sign of Wall Street’s confidence in the strong advertising work of the social media group, despite Zuckerberg’s plans to continue the upper infrastructure of Amnesty International.
The company topped analysts’ expectations in the fourth quarter, as it increased by 21 percent in revenue to 48.4 billion dollars, and a joke of approximately 50 percent in net income to $ 20.8 billion.
This comes at a time when Meta has doubled its investments in artificial intelligence to run its recommendations on its Facebook and Instagram conclusions, and enhance how brands can target users, in a blessing of their advertising work.
Based on a call with analysts, Zuckerberg said he hopes his wing will start from the stakes of artificial intelligence in the long run at work this year. Meta’s Ai Chatbot, which has 700 million monthly users, would become active, and open source Llama models are the most advanced and more used in a very competitive field with competitors, including Openai and Microsoft.
Zuckerberg has also worried that the unexpected release of an advanced open source model by the initial Deepseek company will threaten to push the company to develop the global standard of open source. Deepseek has sent shock waves through American technology shares, such as NVIDIA chips, on Monday, although Meta avoided selling.
“There will be an open source standard worldwide. He said,” It is important to be this American standard, so we take it seriously, “adding:” I just strengthened some recent news. Our conviction is that this is the right thing to focus on it. ” .
However, he also admitted that Meta would adopt some of the “new” progress made by his rival.
Zuckerberg is under pressure from investors to justify the huge capitalist expenses, which said last week between $ 60 billion and $ 65 billion in 2025.
On a call on Wednesday, the company indicated that it will consider allowing brands to pay to appear as its best recommendations as a way to improve Chatbot from artificial intelligence, Meta Ai, which hopes to reach users of 1 billion by the end of the year. Among other aspirations, Meta wants to reduce computing costs by transforming in some cases to its custom AI chips.
“The so -called dead (2023) has been overcome in 2025 with the” density “year.” Mark Zuckerberg has clearly put expectations that clarity will reach the paths of long -term dead initiatives. ”
“The Wild Card? Dibsic,” continued. “For Meta, this probably shines a fire on the top of their” intense “year, already expected.
Zuckerberg also said that the year 2025 will be a “great year to redefine our relationship with governments”, which praises the Trump administration as he continues to try to formulate closer relationships with the new president.
He said that the United States now has “a proud management of our leading company, which is a priority to win American technology, which will defend our values and interests abroad.”
Donald Trump has already been inhabited against Mita due to the alleged control of conservative users. Separately on Wednesday, Meta confirmed that it paid about $ 25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump against the company and Zuckerberg because of its suspension of the president’s accounts in 2021. The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement agreement.
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2025-01-30 01:36:00