R1, the Chinese AI model that disrupted Silicon Valley, available on their cloud platforms, intensifying debates over AI cost efficiency and U.S. tech dominance.

Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI,

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