Microsoft 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.

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

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are set to deploy the recently released artificial intelligence (AI) model, DeepSeek-R1, according to the company's representative, Cary Chai.

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 integrated Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 AI model into its Azure cloud and GitHub, offering over 1,800 models. DeepSeek's AI assistant surpassed ChatGPT in App Store downloads, causing investor concern.

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

Chinese cloud giant Alibaba says that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.

As Chinese AI company DeepSeek gains traction in the tech world amid ongoing US-China trade tensions, OpenAI suspects that DeepSeek may have utilized ChatGPT data to develop its own cost-effective AI models.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab, has released an advanced AI model which rivals leading models from OpenAI. The DeepSeek-R1 model can perform complicated mathematical reasoning, code generation, and more with fewer resources than its American competitors.