"DeepSeek, and R1 in particular, was the first model I've seen post some points," Nadella said.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has admitted that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek caught him off guard with its powerful model, R1 — the first he’s seen to seriously challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Chinese AI startup's R1 model scored real points DeepSeek’s R1 model has done what no one else has managed and gotten ...

"OpenAI has been so far ahead that no one's really come close," Nadella said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published Thursday. "DeepSeek, and R1 in particular, was the first model I ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lauded DeepSeek's R1 as a formidable competitor to OpenAI's models, surpassing even Google's Gemini in performance. This recognition, along with praise from OpenAI's ...

DeepSeek stunned the AI industry when it unveiled its flagship model R1 earlier this year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said R1 was the first model he had seen that could match up to OpenAI's.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called R1 an "impressive model" in January. "OpenAI has been so far ahead that no one's really come close," Nadella said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published ...

DeepSeek’s R1 was distilled into versions with retrained LLaMA and Qwen models ranging from 70 billion parameters to as low as 1.5 billion parameters. The smallest of those models can even ...