Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes that DeepSeek will inevitably help the American AI industry rather than hurt it. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella isn’t pressed about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s recent success.

In an apparent response to the attention on a new AI model out of China, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted online

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