India, Jan. 30 -- Microsoft chief financial officer (CFO) told employees in an internal memo to keep their heads down and focus, according to a Business Insider report.

This comes as Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek's new model got launched, competing with the Microsoft-backed OpenAI at a fraction of the cost.

This ended up raising questions from investors about the possibility of returns from AI due to the huge spending by other tech giants on it.

A particular case is the joint venture by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank called Stargate which would spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure.

Even Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion into this in 2025 alone.

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