shares a social media giant meta dipping in and out of negative territory on the year today giving up all of their giving up all of that is astonishing post deep seek winning streak and it comes as we learn the company's head of AI research is leaving our dear debosa has more in today's tech check hey d

hey good morning carl so there's that and there's other recent developments that might or should

have investors wondering if meta has lost its AI edge. Now, Joel Pinot led that division for

eight years. Her departure comes at a critical time. Mark Zuckerberg has made AI a top priority,

and the race has never been fiercer. Now, there's already signs that meta is falling behind here. It has been

eight months since the last major Lama release, and that is an eternity in the AI timeline. I mean,

just contrast it with Open AI, which has put out GBT40 and 4.5 this year, and Google with Gemini

2.0 Flash, 2.0 Pro plus experimental versions. And then on the open source front,

DeepSeek has, of course, been on a role surprising many with its efficiency breakthroughs and

the impressive performance to match. Meanwhile, French open source rival Mistral, it continues

to release new products, including a multimodal ultra-efficient model last month.

Now, there's also data from similar web that is new, showing that Meta's AI had the lowest

daily traffic among major chatbots in March, including some that most haven't even heard of,

like getliner.com. And by the way, Elon Musk's XAI Grock,

it saw the largest growth in traffic last month. Now, not that Zuckerberg has wanted to sit back,

Meta is holding its first ever LamaCon on April 29th, where it's expected to showcase

its next AI moves. And Zuck has teased a series of upcoming Lama models, including new reasoning

and agenetic capabilities. But then there's TikTok too. And what its future means not only for

meta-AI, but the core business of its social media. Now, President Trump, he's going to meet

with top White House officials today to discuss a proposal that could secure TikTok's future here in the

U.S. latest reports point to a new ownership structure that could include Oracle and Blackstone.

You know, why this matters for Mehta, of course, is because it's family of apps.

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