Microsoft And Perplexity Integrate DeepSeek AI Into Their Platforms - 1

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Microsoft And Perplexity Integrate DeepSeek AI Into Their Platforms

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

Microsoft and Perplexity have integrated the Chinese startup DeepSeek’s AI model into their platforms. Perplexity is using DeepSeek’s latest R1 model in its search platform, and Microsoft is using it on its Azure AI Foundry platform.

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  • Perplexity integrated DeepSeek’s R1 model into its search platform and has been expanding query limits for users.
  • Microsoft added DeepSeek R1 on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub.
  • Both companies promised to enhance integrations and expand DeepSeek features.

Not long after Perplexity’s CEO Aravind Srinivas congratulated DeepSeek for reaching first place on Apple’s App Store in the United States on the social media platform X this Monday, Perplexity made major updates adopting the Chinese open-source AI model.

Perplexity announced a few hours later that Pro level users could access DeepSeek’s R1 model through their platform, offering an “uncensored” version—as many users have revealed that the Chinese model avoids responses that could affect the Chinese government, including historical events—and with data hosted in the United States.

Throughout the week, the American startup has been updating its mobile applications to include DeepSeek’s technology and expanding the limits of use, including a few queries for free users.

Also we’re going to buy more capacity to keep serving DeepSeek R1 in American data centers! Those shorting NVDA are shortsighted. The proliferation of search agents and assistants that can reason has just begun! 🇺🇸 — Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) January 27, 2025

Microsoft has also joined the DeepSeek inclusion movement—despite currently investigating whether the Chinese company accessed its partner OpenAI’s technology without permission—and has added DeepSeek R1 to Azure AI Foundry today.

“DeepSeek R1 is now available in the model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, joining a diverse portfolio of over 1,800 models, including frontier, open-source, industry-specific, and task-based AI models,” wrote Asha Sharma, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft’s AI Platform in the official announcement . “As part of Azure AI Foundry, DeepSeek R1 is accessible on a trusted, scalable, and enterprise-ready platform, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI while meeting SLAs, security, and responsible AI commitments—all backed by Microsoft’s reliability and innovation.”

Microsoft added that customers will soon be able to use lighter versions of the DeepSeek R1 model on their Copilot+ PCs without needing an internet connection.

Alibaba Releases New Qwen AI Model And Claims It Outperforms DeepSeek-V3 - 2

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Alibaba Releases New Qwen AI Model And Claims It Outperforms DeepSeek-V3

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

The Chinese giant Alibaba released the latest version of its flagship AI model, Qwen, this Wednesday. The company claims it can perform better than the popular DeepSeek-V3.

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  • Alibaba released its latest reasoning model Qwen 2.5-Max this Wednesday.
  • The Chinese giant claims it outperforms popular models like DeepSeek-V3, GPT-4o, and Llama-3.1-405B.
  • The company also launched Qwen2.5-VL this week, an AI model capable of processing images and act as an AI agent using computers and mobiles to perform tasks.

According to Reuters , Alibaba launched the new Qwen 2.5-Max, as it has named the new reasoning model, right during the holidays of the Lunar New Year in China, to join the massive AI developments of the past few days and add domestic competition.

On Monday, DeepSeek reached first place on Apple’s App Store in the United States, surpassing ChatGPT, concerning other companies in the AI industry and alarming investors— Nvidia shares dropped 17% in just one day.

Now, Alibaba has announced the latest versions of its Qwen model—it released 100 open-source AI models for the Qwen suite in September last year—promising better results than popular frontier models.

“Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms (…) almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” wrote the company on its official WeChat account.

The new reasoning model Qwen 2.5-Max’s API is available through Alibaba’s cloud and users can also test the model on its chat page.

“We are developing Qwen2.5-Max, a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-trained with curated Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methodologies,” wrote Qwen Team in Github .

The Chinese giant also released Qwen2.5-VL on Monday, a series of multimodal AI models that can also process images and access mobiles and computers to perform tasks. OpenAI announced a similar feature, Operator , allowing ChatGPT to perform tasks autonomously taking control of the user’s computer.

According to Alibaba’s team, all Qwen models outperform similar versions from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek.