India, July 3 -- While India debates - duly impassioned by China's recent AI strides - spending billions on building its own foundation model, a company that has already spent billions on the world's most famous AI laboratory is now looking at using Chinese models.

That company is Microsoft and its CEO, Satya Nadella, has said that the world cannot allow a handful of AI giants to eat the economy. Microsoft has invested billions in OpenAI, helped turn ChatGPT into a household name, and made AI the centre of its future. Yet, he recently told the Wall Street Journal that he is considering using technology from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that shocked Silicon Valley by showing that powerful models could be built and run far more cheaply...