Microsoft CEO Nadella emphasized in a conference call that the DeepSeek-R1 model is currently available through Microsoft's AI platform Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and will soon be able to run on Copilot+ computers. Nadella said DeepSeek "has some real innovation" and that the trend is that AI costs are falling: "The scaling law is accumulating in pre-training and inference time calculations. Over the years, we have seen AI training and inference. Significant efficiency improvements. On the inference side, we typically see more than 2x price/performance improvements with each generation of hardware and more than 10x price/performance improvements with each generation of models.”