Microsoft aggressively expanded its data-center capacity to meet surging AI demand. By April 2024, reports indicated Microsoft aimed to triple its data-center cap ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved quickly to get DeepSeek’s R1 deployed on Azure in January. Nadella appeared to have anticipated the rise of a breakthrough like R1, and now he says a new bar has been ...

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 ...

When I wrote about DeepSeek's efficiency revolution in January, I called it a "master class" that "shatters the myth that AI supremacy requires a billion-dollar checkbook." Microsoft's widespread ...

Microsoft may be looking to develop its own AI models to reduce its reliance on OpenAI and gain greater control over the AI ...

Microsoft Azure customers do not need to rent dedicated servers for DeepSeek, but they still pay for underlying computing power, leading to variable pricing depending on how efficiently they run the ...

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saw the writing on the silicon and fast-tracked DeepSeek’s R1 into Azure. At a closed-door company town hall, sources say Nadella practically evangelised DeepSeek’s ...

Microsoft is holding a 50th Anniversary Copilot livestream today at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT on April 4th, the same day ...

AI advancements like DeepSeek and Chinese MoE architectures offer lower compute costs, undermining the need for Microsoft's premium-priced Azure services. Microsoft's CapEx surge, driven by AI ...

Microsoft has added DeepSeek's R1 model to both Azure and GitHub, making it readily available to developers. It has also rolled out specially distilled 7B and 14B versions optimized for Copilot+ ...