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

As a preview, interested parties can use the large language model DeepSeek R1 in GitHub Models free of charge and compare the results with other models.

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 MSFT.O 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. The AI model will be available in the model catalog on the platforms and will join more than 1,800 models that Microsoft is offering.

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

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 has added DeepSeek 's R1 model into its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub. The move is likely to improve Microsoft's customer experience. This affordable AI model from the Chinese start-up has shaken US financial markets with its performance and low training costs against top models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google.

Microsoft makes DeepSeek locally available on Copilot+ PCs. Model to arrive first on Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors — Intel and AMD chips to follow.