India, Jan. 30 -- Amid fears that DeepSeek's AI models could hurt demand for graphics processing units (GPUs), tech giant Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to double down on investments in AI - even "hundreds of billions of dollars" over the long term.

During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call yesterday (January 29), Zuckerberg said he expects Meta's large language model Llama to become the most advanced and widely used AI model in 2025.

"Our goal with Llama 3 was to make open source competitive with closed models, and our goal for Llama 4 is to lead," Zuckerberg said.

He further said Meta's upcoming AI model Llama 4 would have multimodal and agentic capabilities that would unlock several new use cases.

When asked about the...