Microsoft brings distilled DeepSeek R1 models to Copilot+ PCs

OSTN Staff

DeepSeek conquered the mobile world and it is now expanding to Windows – with the full support of Microsoft, surprisingly. Yesterday, the software giant added the DeepSeek R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry to allow developers to test and build cloud-based apps and services with it. Today, Microsoft announced that it is bringing distilled versions of R1 to Copilot+ PCs.

The distilled models will first be available to devices powered by Snapdragon X chips, the ones with Intel Core Ultra 200V processors and then AMD Ryzen AI 9 based PCs.

The first model will be DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B…