If you can’t beat your enemy, join them. In a way, this is what Microsoft has done with one of the most powerful AI models currently shaking up the market and worrying major tech companies. The company has added DeepSeek’s R1 model, the Chinese AI, to its collection of models on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. It will also be integrated into Windows 11.
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This move was expected due to DeepSeek’s impressive capabilities and the low cost of running the model, which is highly appealing for developers wanting to add AI features to their applications. DeepSeek is also open source, making integration much easier.
With this move, Microsoft customers will be able to easily integrate DeepSeek into their AI applications and services. Asha Sharma, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s AI platform, emphasized that “one of the key advantages of using DeepSeek R1 or any other model in Azure AI Foundry is the speed with which developers can experiment, iterate, and integrate AI into their workflows.”
Sharma also pointed out that DeepSeek R1 has undergone “rigorous evaluations” related to security, including reviews of the model’s behavior and several security assessments designed to reduce risks.
DeepSeek will also be integrated into Windows 11.
At the same time, Microsoft has confirmed that DeepSeek will be integrated into Windows 11. This will be done with a scaled-down version of the R1 model, which will be available on devices with Copilot Plus. In the future, we may see a full version of the AI integrated into some Microsoft services.
The integration of DeepSeek R1 into Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s main investors, comes just days after the model made waves in the stock market. It also follows remarks from Sam Altman, CEO of the company behind ChatGPT. Altman expressed his admiration for what Chinese AI can achieve “for the price it has” and noted that having competitors is beneficial, as it drives further advancements in AI development.
Altman also mentioned that OpenAI is working on more powerful models that can directly compete with DeepSeek. It’s important to note that Chinese AI also stands out because it provides answers that are as accurate, or even more so, than ChatGPT, but with fewer parameters.
In other news, both OpenAI and Microsoft are investigating whether DeepSeek used OpenAI’s API to train its model. Microsoft researchers, according to Bloomberg, have reportedly found data linked to DeepSeek that was previously used in OpenAI developer accounts.