Despite potential concerns over intellectual property theft, Microsoft has announced the integration of DeepSeek’s R1 model into its cloud services, highlighting the model’s availability on the Azure AI Foundry platform.

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 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.

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

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

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

OpenAI major investor Microsoft makes the Chinese AI model DeepSeek R1 available via Azure and on Github.

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

Despite the controversy surrounding the Chinese open-source model, it has received the blessing of US companies that say their versions of it are safer and feature less censorship.