Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.

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

Microsoft has added the open source DeepSeek R1 LLM to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, showing that even a lumbering tech giant can be nimble when it needs to be.… DeepSeek R1 is only one of more than 1,

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

R1, the Chinese AI model that disrupted Silicon Valley, available on their cloud platforms, intensifying debates over AI cost efficiency and U.S. tech dominance.

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.

Initially, it will be available on PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X, followed by computers with Intel Core Ultra 200V and other devices. Microsoft will also add the R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform,

Microsoft integrates DeepSeek’s cost-effective R1 AI model into Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, enabling developers to quickly incorporate it into their projects

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.