
Microsoft Makes DeepSeek R1 Available on Azure and GitHub
Customers will soon be able to run DeepSeek R1’s distilled models locally on Copilot+ PCs.
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Customers will soon be able to run DeepSeek R1’s distilled models locally on Copilot+ PCs.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff believes it will do so and might not use OpenAI anymore.
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Developers have released source code for MatterGen under the MIT license.
The new architecture addresses issues identified in earlier versions, including architectural constraints and limited debugging functionality.
“More jobs are being created for India,” Puneet Chandok, president of Microsoft India and South Asia, said.
“Every person can now start programming, whether it’s in Hindi, Brazilian, or Portuguese, and bring back the joy of coding in their native language,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.
“Customers don’t look at them and don’t take them seriously in AI, nor should they, because they’re not even making the AI themselves. “
Smaller models are easier to use, require less powerful hardware, and make advanced AI tools available to more people and organisations
The company has made the small language model available on Hugging Face and supports ten Indian languages too!
“AI agents are a multi-trillion dollar opportunity.”
The company reiterated GitHub Copilot’s capabilities to understand natural language.
Microsoft will train 10 million people in AI by 2030 as a part of its ADVANTA(I)GE INDIA initiative.
Nadella is currently touring India as part of the Microsoft AI Tour, where he will be speaking in Bengaluru on January 7, 2025, and in New Delhi on January 8, 2025.
India, being one of the global leaders in adopting generative AI, is a key market for Microsoft.
Microsoft suggests that OpenAI’s o1 Mini and GPT 4o Mini consist of 100 billion and 8 billion parameters, respectively.
A few months ago, the Telangana government signed MoUs with major big tech companies including OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA and AWS.
Only when OpenAI’s systems generate maximum profits, the company would have achieved AGI.
As per reports, the company is working on adding non-OpenAI models into Copilot products.
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‘Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing’ isn’t free from challenges, though.
“This is the best news for Microsoft shareholders—that we lost so badly that we can now go contest it and win back some share.”
Microsoft said that synthetic data serves as a more effective mechanism for the model’s learning by using structured, diverse and nuanced datasets.
It offers performance comparable to multiple leading large language models.
In September, AWS selected seven Indian generative AI startups for their accelerator program that received $1M in AWS credits.
“Each data centre will avoid using 125 million litres of water annually,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO at Microsoft AI.
The AI assistant ‘Sukjai’ is built using NVIDIA AI for the Tourism Authority of Thailand and will support Thai and English languages.
Similar to Copilot Vision, OpenAI is set to launch its agent, Operator, in January.
Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech giants are shaping a future where AI powers every app, offering tools to build the next generation—while ensuring you play by their rules.
Microsoft aims to use quantum computing to address complex problems that are currently impractical for classical computers.
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