Microsoft has added DeepSeek’s R1 model to both Azure and GitHub, making it readily available to developers. It has also rolled out specially distilled 7B and 14B versions optimized for Copilot+ ...

(Reuters) - 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 ...

On January 29, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that DeepSeek R1 is now available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, offering businesses a scalable and secure platform to integrate advanced AI.

In fact, Microsoft stated yesterday that DeepSeek R1 is now available in the model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, joining a diverse portfolio of over 1,800 models, including frontier ...

Microsoft also did something unexpected on Wednesday. The company separately said it would add China’s DeepSeek RI model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub. The same R1 model, which can ...

That approach includes offering up models along with developer guidance. The company yesterday announced "DeepSeek R1 is now available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub" and published guidance on "Using ...

The addition of R1 to Microsoft’s cloud services is a curious one, considering that Microsoft reportedly initiated a probe into DeepSeek’s potential abuse of its and OpenAI’s services.

Instead, DeepSeek-R1 users on these cloud platforms pay only for the computing resources they consume, rather than for the amount of text the model generates. AWS and Google have reported that this ...

The first release, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B (a 1.5 billion parameter model), will soon be joined by larger 7B and 14B versions. Users can download them from Microsoft’s AI Toolkit.

Microsoft has announced that it will be bringing “NPU-optimized” versions of the DeepSeek-R1 AI model to Copilot+ PCs soon, first with Snapdragon X devices, followed by Intel Lunar Lake and ...