DeepSeek fundraising 💰, Meta model delays ⌛ , Gemma 4 12B 🤖

# What You Need to Know This Week DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, just raised a massive funding round that signals serious competition is coming from outside the US in the race to build advanced AI. Meta is hitting delays on its next-generation AI model, while Google released a smaller, faster version of its Gemma AI that's easier for companies to use without massive computing budgets. Together, these moves show the AI landscape is getting more competitive, with companies finding different paths to building capable AI systems.