The models are available on the Azure AI Foundry – along with the DeepSeek 1.5B distilled model announced last month.

Azure, for instance, offers access to the Nvidia H100 with 900 GBytes of memory for $27.167 per hour, which, on paper, should easily be able to run the 671 billion-parameter DeepSeek-R1 model ...

The unveiling of DeepSeek R1 — a cutting-edge AI model with open weights but not fully open-source — by the Chinese firm DeepSeek has sparked a significant reaction across the global technology sector ...

Microsoft is investing R5.4 billion in South Africa to enhance AI and cloud infrastructure and expand data centres.

“For instance, we serve the DeepSeek-R1 model at 85 tokens per second and Azure serves it at 7 tokens per second,” said Prakash. “There is a fairly widening gap in the performance and cost ...

If accurate, DeepSeek’s profitability despite deep discounts would signal a sustainable low-cost AI model, potentially ...

Last month, Wall Street was stunned by the emergence of a Chinese tech startup called DeepSeek, which released an artificial ...

Together AI — an AI cloud platform that enables companies to train and deploy artificial intelligence models — has raised $305 million in Series B funding in a round led by General Catalyst, more than ...

The software giant plans to invest R5.4 billion over the next two years, to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in South ...