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.

Microsoft has announced that it is bringing distilled DeepSeek R1 to Copilot+ PCs, with the NPU-optimized AI model coming to Snapdragon X PCs first.

Microsoft has taken the hot new AI model, DeepSeek, and made it available for Copilot+ PCs — and on the NPU, no less. If it seems like every other week something important is happening in the AI space — well,