DeepSeek is a Chinese company that recently launched its AI model DeepSeek-R1, which rocked the US stock market, showing the maximum downloads on the App Store. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is suddenly facing some strong competition from the China-based AI model, DeepSeek-R1. Now, Microsoft decided to bring DeepSeek’s AI model R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub.
DeepSeek R1 joins Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
On 29th January 2025, Microsoft announced in its latest blog post that it is going to add the DeepSeek R1 Model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. DeepSeek R1 is now available in the model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. DeepSeek R1 offers a powerful, cost-efficient model that allows more users to harness state-of-the-art AI capabilities with minimal infrastructure investment. Hence, it will help accelerate AI reasoning for developers on Azure AI Foundry.
“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,” says Microsoft.
Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the AI platform stated that one of the key advantages of using the DeepSeek R1 model on Azure AI Foundry is the speed at which developers can experiment and integrate AI into their workflows.
In another blog post on 29th January 2025, Microsoft also announced that users with Copilot+ PCs will be able to run the Distilled version of the DeepSeek-R1 model locally on their Windows machine. This model will be optimized in the ONNX QDQ format and will soon be available in AI Toolkit’s model catalog, pulled directly from Azure AI Foundry. Users will be able to download it by clicking on the Download button.
Did DeepSeek use OpenAI API for training?
As per the latest article published on Bloomberg, Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether the Chinese Artificial intelligence startup company DeepSeek used open AI’s API to train its AI models. According to the report, a large amount of OpenAI API’s data was exfiltrated late last year, Microsoft Security Researchers believe that this can be linked to DeepSeek. However, the matter is currently under investigation.
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