In an internal memo to Microsoft employees, CFO Amy Hood urged staff to concentrate on delivering practical AI solutions and expanding the company's cloud infrastructure despite recent tumultuous AI news. This follows the launch of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that introduced a cost-effective model competing with OpenAI. The memo reflects Microsoft's commitment to security, quality, and AI innovation, especially as it plans to invest $80 billion in AI-enabled data centers by fiscal 2025. Hood's communication comes amid a dip in stock value following less-than-expected growth in AI and cloud services.
As a company, we remain steadfast in the priorities which are required to deliver on that product promise - security, quality, and AI innovation.
There has been a lot of AI-related news this week, but our focus is clear: delivering real-world AI solutions while simultaneously globally scaling our cloud and AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek's model launched recently competes with OpenAI at a fraction of the cost, questioning the trillions spent on AI infrastructure.
We are familiar with criticisms of the industry's significant spending on AI infrastructure and whether it will lead to actual returns.
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