Earlier today, we reported that Meta AI has gone into panic mode following the meteoric rise of free open-source DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model that has taken the industry by storm. DeepSeek outperformed leading AI systems, including Meta’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5, on third-party benchmarks, cementing its position as a breakthrough