OpenAI major investor Microsoft makes the Chinese AI model DeepSeek R1 available via Azure and on Github.

Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.

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

Microsoft has added DeepSeek 's R1 model into its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub. The move is likely to improve Microsoft's customer experience. This affordable AI model from the Chinese start-up has shaken US financial markets with its performance and low training costs against top models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google.

KEY TAKEAWAYS Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a group linked to Chinese startup DeepSeek used improperly obtained data from the American AI company to launch the low-cost AI model that sparked a selloff Monday.

OpenAI believes its data was used to train DeepSeek’s R1 large language model, multiple publications reported today. DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence provider that develops open-source LLMs.

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.