Microsoft CEO: DeepSeek has "real innovation" and AI cost reduction is the trend

PANews reported on January 30 that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a conference call that the DeepSeek R1 model is now available through Microsoft's AI platform Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and will soon support running on Copilot+ computers. Nadella called the model "real innovation" and emphasized that the trend of AI cost reduction is a trend. He mentioned that the scaling law continues to play a role in AI pre-training and reasoning. Over the years, the efficiency of AI training and reasoning has been significantly improved, with the cost performance of each generation of hardware generally increasing by more than 2 times, and the cost performance of each generation of models increasing by more than 10 times.