Microsoft is bringing the DeepSeek-R1 AI model to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Snapdragon X devices and later with Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Ryzen AI 9 PCs.
The DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B model will be available soon on Microsoft AI Toolkit for developers, with more powerful 7B and 14B variants coming later.
The models are "NPU-optimized" for Copilot+ PCs, allowing developers to build and deploy AI-powered applications efficiently on these devices.
Microsoft is also bringing DeepSeek's R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform. However, there are concerns about privacy issues and unauthorized use of OpenAI technology by DeepSeek.