Sorry Google and Elon Musk’s xAI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella finds only DeepSeek’s R1 as the first AI model close to OpenAI’s

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has praised on Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek’s flagship model, R1, saying that it is the first large language model (LLM) that he’s seen to rival OpenAI’s performance – essentially keeping it on a higher pedestal than Google’s Gemini and the one that powers Grok, the AI chatbot by Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI.

“OpenAI has been so far ahead that no one’s really come close,” Nadella told Bloomberg Businessweek.