There's a lot of noise in the AI market at the start of 2025. But Microsoft CEO Nadella has seen it all before.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a picture of himself with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday and suggested the two companies are getting along just fine.
The Microsoft CEO will have to perform a delicate balancing act over the next four years to keep his company from becoming a target.
Distilled R1 models can now run locally on Copilot Plus PCs, starting with Qualcomm Snapdragon X first and Intel chips later. This brings a lot more AI capabilities to Windows, and it’s something Microsoft was already working on with its Phi Silica language models.
Microsoft plans to spend $108 billion on data centres this fiscal year to meet customers' AI demands. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek has displaced OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most downloaded app on the Apple App store and the market is panicking. Stocks for major AI connected companies like NVIDIA fell on Monday morning following the news.
As with Jevons Paradox, efficiency gains should send AI use soaring as costs drop. As Microsoft’s Satya Nadella observed, what the steam engine did to coal demand is now likely to happen with AI.
DeepSeek delivers high-performing, cost-effective models using weaker GPUs, questioning the trillion-dollar spend on US AI firms like OpenAI.
The Microsoft CEO cited Jevons paradox, which stipulates increased efficiency in production drives increased demand.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined Elon Musk in publicly questioning viability of Stargate artificial intelligence megaproject unveiled earlier this week by President Donald Trump.
DeepSeek will not derail Microsoft and Meta spending a combined $US145bn ($232.3bn) on artificial intelligence this year, with Mark Zuckerberg steaming ahead with plans to build a data centre almost the size of Manhattan.