DeepSeek, AI and Microsoft

Microsoft ports DeepSeek’s AI to Copilot+ PCs, and their NPUs
Microsoft has taken the hot new AI model, DeepSeek, and made it available for Copilot+ PCs — and on the NPU, no less. If it seems like every other week something important is happening in the AI space — well,
I replaced CoPilot AI with DeepSeek and it's great, if not overhyped
Fed up with CoPilot's chatty style, I wanted to see if the new DeepSeek R1 AI would be a better assistant, here's what I learned.
Inside Microsoft’s quick embrace of DeepSeek
Distilled R1 models can now run locally on Copilot Plus PCs, starting with Qualcomm Snapdragon X first and Intel chips later. This brings a lot more AI capabilities to Windows, and it’s something Microsoft was already working on with its Phi Silica language models.
Microsoft says you can run DeepSeek R1 right on your laptop
Microsoft confirmed it will bring the DeepSeek R1 model to Azure cloud and GitHub in a move that it hopes will lessen its reliance on OpenAI's models. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox
Microsoft to bring DeepSeek R1 to Copilot+ PCs soon for efficient on-device AI processing
Microsoft's latest move is to bring distilled versions of DeepSeek R1 to Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs. It will allow developers to work on AI features that will run super efficiently on-device.
Microsoft Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs get local DeepSeek-R1 support — Intel, AMD in the works
Microsoft makes DeepSeek locally available on Copilot+ PCs. Model to arrive first on Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors — Intel and AMD chips to follow.
Microsoft just announced that it's bringing DeepSeek R1 models to Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft has announced that it is bringing distilled DeepSeek R1 to Copilot+ PCs, with the NPU-optimized AI model coming to Snapdragon X PCs first.

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Why did DeepSeek tell me it’s made by Microsoft?
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shocking Wall Street, insisted to me that it had been created by Microsoft. The ...
Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.
Microsoft’s Copilot-focused Surface Pro and Laptop PCs ship with Snapdragon and Intel options
At an event in New York City on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled two additions to the Surface line of PCs. The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop both arrive ...
Microsoft rolls out DeepSeek's AI model on Azure
Microsoft has made Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 artificial intelligence model available on its Azure cloud computing ...
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Microsoft Q2 2025 Earnings Preview: 5 Things To Know
Microsoft, MSFT, CEO Satya Nadella is expected to talk about DeepSeek, Stargate, Azure, Copilot, AI, GenAI and more on the ...