Microsoft today introduces the R1 model of the Chinese company AI Deepseek into the Azure Ai Foundry and Github platform. Model R1, which this week shocked American financial markets, because it can be trained for a fraction of the costs of leading models from OpenAI, IS Now part of the model catalog on Azure Ai Foundry and Github – enabling Microsoft customers to integrate it with AI applications.
“One of the key advantages of using Deepseek R1 or any other model on Azure Ai Foundry is the speed at which developers can experiment, iterate and integrate artificial intelligence with work flows,” says Asha Sharma, Microsoft Vice President of Microsoft for the AI platform. “Deepseek R1 underwent rigorous ratings of the team and safety of red red, including automated model behavior assessments and extensive safety inspections to limit potential threats.”
R1 was initially released as the Open Source model at the beginning of this month, and Microsoft moved at a surprising pace to integrate it with the Azure AI foundry. The software manufacturer will also provide a distilled, smaller version of the R1, which will soon work locally on Copilot Plus computers, and it is possible that we can even see how R1 will appear in other Microsoft services from Microsoft.
The R1 Deepseek model surprised Wall Street this week, because it does not have to exploit so many systems from suppliers such as NVIDIA, and training is much cheaper. This puts a huge dent in the NVIDIA market valuation, which fell by almost $ 600 billion at one time after investors were terrified of Deepseeka’s progress and the popularity of its mobile application.
Opeli and Microsoft reportedly examine whether the Chinese rival used the API OpenAI interface to train Deepseek models. Bloomberg It was reported at the beginning of this week that Microsoft security researchers detected vast amounts of data used via OPENAI developers accounts at the end of last year, which could have been associated with Deepseek.