Satya Nadella Says DeepSeek Is the New Bar For Microsoft's AI Success (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/1714214/satya-nadella-says-deepseek-is-the-new-bar-for-microsofts-ai-success
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/637496/microsoft-satya-nadella-deepseek-chatgpt-ai-investments-notepad
"Most importantly, not just leaving it there as a research project or an open source project, but to turn it into a product that was number one in the App Store. That's the new bar to me," he added. Microsoft quickly deployed DeepSeek's R1 on its Azure platform in January. The AI model gained recognition for its optimization below Nvidia's CUDA layer, enabling greater efficiency.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/637496/microsoft-satya-nadella-deepseek-chatgpt-ai-investments-notepad
Previous Bar was set by Clippy... (Score:2)
I don't think anyone would put that on the resume, considering how much this boondoggle cost.
You've done a great job sir, but it's futile (Score:2, Insightful)
Open letter to Mr. Nadella, also known as "screaming at the wind."
Please realize that Ballmer's long reliance on stacked ranking and your own downsizing of QA has left you incapable of competing with the Chinese. IOW, you inherited a near fatal case of brain drain. Your software tends to be broken and stay that way, as you cast about for new features and angles to refresh your commodity level stuff that can only become more broken by such attempts. This is not your core business.
That kind of innovation/inte
This is disturbingly clever (Score:2)
So Microsoft's actual competitor here is still chat GTP and open AI but boosting deep seek here is going to make people think twice about that. That in turn would hurt their primary competitor. This kind of nasty little shenanigans is what makes Microsoft Microsoft and it's, well I don't want to say it's good to see but it is a bit surprising that this kind of nastiness didn't go away with Bill Gates
More Spying Bloatware (Score:2)
What it will likely amount to: More Spying Bloatware.
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> What it will likely amount to: More Spying Bloatware.
right? isn't china monitoring the queries? surprised nadella would use that as an example. i guess he could be referring to how it came out of nowhere and was all of a sudden an LLM player.
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> right? isn't china monitoring the queries? surprised nadella would use that as an example.
I would think he sees value in DeepSeek's work due to how efficiently it is on resources. AI has shown to be a huge power drain so a way to do the work on less juice would be a cost savings to an operator, but it seems his admiration is more PHB than that:
> "What's most impressive about DeepSeek is that it's a great reminder of what 200 people can do when they come together with one thought and one play," The Verge cited Nadella as saying.
He's just another bean-counter chasing the "fewer employee salaries for
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If you load the model on your own gear they aren't monitoring anything.