The first release, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B, is available in AI Toolkit, with 7B and 14B variants arriving soon.

Get ready to play!

The model is also available in the Azure AI Foundry for cloud-hosted deployment.

Microsoft is also showcasing the impressive results of their efforts with the NPU-optimized DeepSeek R1 model.

The model retains the same reasoning ability as the original model, despite running on an NPU-enabled gear.

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