Fresh on the heels of a controversy in which ChatGPT-maker OpenAI accused the Chinese company behind DeepSeek R1 of using its AI model outputs against its terms of service, OpenAI’s largest investor, Microsoft, announced on Wednesday that it will now host DeepSeek R1 on its Azure cloud service.
DeepSeek R1 has been the talk of the AI world for the past week because it is a freely available simulated reasoning model that reportedly matches OpenAI’s o1 in performance—while allegedly being trained for a fraction of the cost.
Azure allows software developers to rent computing muscle from machines hosted in Microsoft-owned data centers, as well as rent access to software that runs on them.
Source : https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/microsoft-embraces-openai-competitor-deepseek-on-its-ai-hosting-service/
