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+ ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

While OpenAI has priced its o1 model at $60 per million output tokens, DeepSeek lists R1 at just $2.19 per million – a remarkable contrast that sunk stock for AI-adjacent companies like Nvidia.

Microsoft supposedly made OpenAI aware of the breach at the time. The R1 model was announced last week, bringing attention to the Chinese AI company, and associated parties.

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.

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 ...

Microsoft's latest move is to bring distilled versions of DeepSeek R1 to Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs. It will allow developers to work on AI features that will run super efficiently on-device.