Enterprises can now access DeepSeek-R1, a Chinese reasoning model, through cloud giants Microsoft Corporation MSFT and Amazon.com, Inc.'s AMZN Web Services, or AWS.
What Happened: Microsoft has made DeepSeek-R1 accessible on GitHub and through the Azure AI Foundry’s model catalog.
The Foundry provides developers with tools for experimentation, iteration, and integration of the model’s capabilities into various workflows, along with security and evaluation tools.
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AWS offers DeepSeek-R1 on its SageMaker platform, which is designed for building, training, and deploying custom models. AWS customers can use the Hugging Face open-source platform to train DeepSeek on SageMaker.
Why It Matters: DeepSeek's R1 has gained recognition for its performance, reportedly surpassing other leading AI models, including OpenAI's ChatGPT.
API access to DeepSeek-R1 starts at $0.14 per million tokens, roughly equivalent to 750,000 words. The latest DeepSeek model is considered closest in capability to OpenAI’s “o1” model, which is priced at $7.50 per million tokens.
In just two months and with under $6 million, the startup said it built a highly cost-effective AI model. This achievement also challenges the notion that large-scale GPU investments are essential.
On Monday, Nvidia Corporation NVDA, the top U.S. producer of high-performance AI chips, experienced a 17% drop in its stock, wiping out around $600 billion in market value—marking its largest single-day loss.
Meanwhile, the Nasdaq 100 fell over 3% on the same day, its steepest decline since Dec. 18.
Previously, Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity AI also launched a self-hosted version of DeepSeek-R1.
The availability of DeepSeek-R1 on these platforms comes amid heightened scrutiny from the U.S. government. The White House has announced that the National Security Council is examining the implications of DeepSeek, citing potential national security risks.
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