Microsoft Has Kind Words for DeepSeek AI, Offers It to Customers
The logos of OpenAI and DeepSeek artificial intelligence apps arranged on a laptop screen.
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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella had some kind words for DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that roiled his company’s shares earlier this week.
The upstart stunned the US tech industry with an open-source AI model called R1 that it claims rivals or outperforms the abilities of western technology but at a fraction of the cost.