Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi
New Delhi, Aug 8: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has responded with poise and positivity to a jab from Tesla chief Elon Musk, who took a swipe at Microsoft over the launch of GPT-5 by OpenAI. Musk, in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on August 7, had remarked that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive.”
Unfazed, Nadella replied, “People have been trying for 50 years and that's the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete. Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and looking forward to Grok 5!”
Microsoft is a major investor and strategic partner of OpenAI, with a multi-billion dollar deal that has integrated OpenAI’s AI models into Microsoft products and Azure cloud infrastructure.
Nadella’s composed and forward-looking response earned praise from several users on X, including industrialist Harsh Goenka, Chairman of RPG Enterprises. “What a masterclass from Satya Nadella – turning Elon’s jab into a celebration of learning, innovation, and partnership. A reminder that the reaction of a mature leader should be to elevate the conversation,” Goenka posted.
Earlier on Friday, Nadella had shared his enthusiasm over the launch of GPT-5, calling it OpenAI’s “most capable model yet.” He also applauded OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “incredible journey” over the last two years and expressed excitement about how developers, enterprises, and consumers would utilize the powerful new model.
“Trained on Azure, GPT-5 brings new advances in reasoning, coding, and chat,” Nadella wrote.