India, Aug. 10 -- Industrialist Harsh Goenka has lauded Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for delivering what he called a "masterclass" in leadership, after Nadella deftly turned a pointed remark from Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk into a positive statement on innovation and collaboration.

The comment came soon after the launch of ChatGPT-5, which Musk claimed was inferior to his company xAI's new model, Grok 4.

Earlier that day, Nadella had announced the rollout of GPT-5 across Microsoft products, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry, describing it as "the most capable model yet" from OpenAI, featuring major advances in reasoning, coding, and chat, all trained on Azure.

Goenka's reaction, highlighting Nade...