In January, Microsoft announced its plans to bring NPU optimized versions of the DeepSeek R1 model directly to Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors. In February, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B was first made available in AIToolkit for VSCode. Today, Microsoft announced the availability of DeepSeek R1 7B and 14B distilled models for Copilot+ PCs via Azure AI Foundry. The ability to run 7B and 14B models locally on Copilot+ PCs will enable developers to build new kinds of AI...
