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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
- Microsoft notified OpenAI of activity that may violate terms
- Individuals were observed exfiltrating data using OpenAI API
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Microsoft Has Kind Words for DeepSeek AI, Offers It to Customers
Dina Bass
30 January 2025 at 09:44 GMT+9

The logos of OpenAI and DeepSeek artificial intelligence apps arranged on a laptop screen.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

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.

Satya NadellaPhotographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg“DeepSeek has had some real innovations,” Nadella said during an investor call after Microsoft reported quarterly results on Wednesday. “Obviously now that all gets commoditized and it’s going to get broadly used.”

DeepSeek’s feat prompted investors to wonder if Nadella’s company needs to spend so much money on AI infrastructure. Couldn’t Microsoft and partner OpenAI train its AI models and handle user queries — a process known as inferencing — more cheaply?

Nadella said they already have been doing exactly that.

“We ourselves have been seeing significant efficiency gains both in training and inference for years now,” he said. Microsoft has used its software to wring better performance and cost savings from each new generation of AI models and AI hardware, Nadella said.

He said Microsoft did a lot of the work in partnership with OpenAI. It’s not enough to release the best new model, he added. You have to make it cost-effective to use. “If it’s too expensive to serve, it’s no good, right?” he said.

Microsoft still plans to spend $80 billion on data centers this fiscal year to help it meet demand from customers for its AI products, though the company expects the growth in expenses to taper off in fiscal 2026, which starts July 1.

On Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported that Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a group linked to DeepSeek had obtained data output from OpenAI’s technology without authorization.

That hasn’t stopped Microsoft from offering DeepSeek’s model to customers. On Wednesday, the company said it had added R1 to its Azure AI Foundry, a repository of more than 1,800 models that companies can use to design and manage AI programs.
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