Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI,

Microsoft confirmed it will bring the DeepSeek R1 model to Azure cloud and GitHub in a move that it hopes will lessen its reliance on OpenAI's models. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Microsoft made DeepSeek's groundbreaking R1 AI model available on the Azure AI Foundry platform as well as GitHub.

Microsoft has made Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 artificial intelligence model available on its Azure cloud computing platform and GitHub tool for developers, the U.S. company said on Wednesday.

Distilled R1 models can now run locally on Copilot Plus PCs, starting with Qualcomm Snapdragon X first and Intel chips later. This brings a lot more AI capabilities to Windows, and it’s something Microsoft was already working on with its Phi Silica language models.

Microsoft brings the Chinese DeepSeek R1 Chinese LLM to Azure and GitHub. The Redmond giant also issued user guides for developers.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) launched the highly popular DeepSeek R1, a powerful AI model, on its Azure cloud platform GitHub for developers.

R1, the Chinese AI model that disrupted Silicon Valley, available on their cloud platforms, intensifying debates over AI cost efficiency and U.S. tech dominance.

Microsoft has brought one of DeepSeek's models to its cloud, and says that 'distilled' versions of the model will come to Copilot+ PCs soon.

Microsoft on Wednesday introduced DeepSeek R1 to its extensive model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, adding to a collection that now exceeds 1,800 models. These models span from frontier and open-source to industry-specific and task-based AI solutions.

Microsoft integrates DeepSeek’s cost-effective R1 AI model into Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, enabling developers to quickly incorporate it into their projects