“I could absolutely see Meta releasing its own version of DeepSeek’s models — it has the GPUs and Zuckerberg can never be fired, meaning that if he decided to simply throw billions of dollars into specifically creating his own deep-discounted LLMs to wipe out OpenAI he absolutely could.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
He could absolutely see Meta releasing its own version of DeepSeek's models, and if Zuckerberg decided to throw billions into deep-discounted LLMs to wipe out OpenAI, he absolutely could.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Deep Impact, paragraph 122.
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- Kind
- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- wiping out OpenAI depends on Zuckerberg deciding to commit billions (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- wiping out OpenAI depends on Zuckerberg deciding to commit billions
Our interpretation
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
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Limitations
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Evidence (0 items)
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Where it was said (1)
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: Where's Your Ed At, Deep Impact
I could absolutely see Meta releasing its own version of DeepSeek’s models — it has the GPUs and Zuckerberg can never be fired, meaning that if he decided to simply throw billions of dollars into specifically creating his own deep-discounted LLMs to wipe out OpenAI he absolutely could.
- Where
- paragraph 122
- Published
- 2025-01-29
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-deep-impact-294431-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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