Despite potential concerns over intellectual property theft, Microsoft has announced the integration of DeepSeek’s R1 model into its cloud services, highlighting the model’s availability on the Azure AI Foundry platform.

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.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) launched the highly popular DeepSeek R1, a powerful AI model, on its Azure cloud platform GitHub for developers.

Microsoft has brought one of DeepSeek's models to its cloud, and says that 'distilled' versions of the model will come to Copilot+ PCs soon.

Microsoft has added DeepSeek 's R1 model into its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub. The move is likely to improve Microsoft's customer experience. This affordable AI model from the Chinese start-up has shaken US financial markets with its performance and low training costs against top models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google.

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

Despite the controversy surrounding the Chinese open-source model, it has received the blessing of US companies that say their versions of it are safer and feature less censorship.

The Chinese startup DeepSeek shook up the world of AI last week after showing its supercheap R1 model could compete directly with OpenAI’s o1. While it wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia’s market value,

Medium Microsoft said on Wednesday that the R1 artificial intelligence model from Chinese firm DeepSeek is now accessible

Both OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly probing the Chinese startup to check if it accessed and used OpenAI’s technology to build its R1 reasoning large language model.