Microsoft surprizes everyone by bringing DeepSeek R1 to Azure and GitHub

DeepSeek R1 will only help Microsoft and their clients

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Microsoft brings the DeepSeek R1 Chinese LLM to Azure and GitHub

In a recent post on the Azure blog, Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s CVP, AI Platform announced that the Chinese DeepSeek R1 model has been added to the Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, along the already existing 1,800 models in the portfolio.

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, open-source, industry-specific, and task-based AI models. As part of Azure AI Foundry, DeepSeek R1 is accessible on a trusted, scalable, and enterprise-ready platform, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI while meeting SLAs, security, and responsible AI commitments—all backed by Microsoft’s reliability and innovation. Source: Microsoft

Recently, we reported that the DeepSeek model caused a big dent in Nvidia’s market share just by providing a new training method that involves a lot fewer resources.

It seems that Microsoft decided to learn from this and use it for their own and everyone’s benefit. After all, the Chinese LLM is open-source, so everyone can use it.

If you want to access DeepSeek on Azure, you will first need an Azure account. Then, you can search for DeepSeek R1 in the model catalog and open its card on Azure AI Foundry.

Source: Microsoft

Microsoft also has a short guide on how to use DeepSeek R1, and you can see it above.

But that’s not all. Microsoft has a guide on how to run distilled versions of the DeepSeek R1 LLM if you want to run it locally on your Copilot+ PC.

Microsoft has nothing but to gain from adding DeepSeek R1 to Azure and GitHub. In fact, the entire AI development industry has a lot to learn from it.

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