DeepSeek’s Rise: Why Microsoft and Nvidia Are Backing It Despite National Security Concerns

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Although the Pentagon blocked the use of DeepSeek and identified it as a threat to national security, the Big Techs seem to think otherwise. Before any legal action is taken for OpenAI’s allegation that DeepSeek used its data to pre-train its models, Microsoft and Nvidia have announced their support for consumers' access to DeepSeek’s R1 model.

Microsoft announced on Jan 29 that R1 is available on its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and customers can use “distilled flavors” of the DeepSeek R1 model to run locally on their Copilot+ PCs. One day later, Nvidia made it accessible to customers on its NIM platform.

This may have left some people scratching their heads. The emergence of DeepSeek sent the stock prices of those tech stocks to deep plunges didn’t it? Why are they helping DeepSeek now?

Several reasons might explain Microsoft and Nvidia NIM’s fast response to making DeepSeek available on their platforms.

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