"Investing 'very heavily' in capital expenditure and infrastructure is going to be a strategic advantage over time," Mark Zuckerberg said.

The tech giants on Wednesday talked up their AI strategies and said they are sticking with ambitious investments in the technology despite the investor panic this week over the ri

Microsoft has earmarked US$80 billion ($128 billion) for AI in its current fiscal year, while Meta has pledged as much as US$65 billion. That is a far cry from the roughly US$6 million DeepSeek said it has spent to develop its AI model.

Microsoft has made Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 artificial intelligence model available on its Azure cloud computing platform and GitHub tool for developers, the U.S. company said on Wednesday.

OpenAI and Microsoft are probing whether DeepSeek used distillation to help train its rival reasoning model. President Trump expects to end birthright citizenship with support from Supreme Court 5 Tennis Superstars Who Are Into Golf as a Hobby ft.

OpenAI believes DeepSeek used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.