“DeepSeek brings real innovations”: Microsoft speaks out on AI

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After Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, also spoke about the DeepSeek phenomenon during the presentation of his company's quarterly results. This Chinese startup, which launched a super-powerful AI that cost it less than ten million dollars, is definitely on everyone's mind.

Glorious words about DeepSeek

The executive had some pretty complimentary and positive words about his rival according to Bloomberg. He explained during the conference call: “DeepSeek has seen real innovations. Obviously, now that everything is commonplace, it will be widely used. »

That said, questions are being asked about the massive investments made by large American companies, while their rival from the Middle Kingdom has achieved significant results for much less money.

According to Satya Nadella, this movement is already underway: “We have been seeing significant efficiency gains in both training and inference for years now.”.

He concludes by discussing the future and the desire to monetize AI. Mentioning his partnership with OpenAI, he believes that it is not enough to release the best model, but also to generate profits: “If it's too expensive to serve, it's not good, right”?”

Meta stays the course

As a reminder, Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged “There are a number of new things they've done that we're still digesting.” So Meta plans to implement the “advances” soon. DeepSeek in its Llama model.