Microsoft has taken the hot new AI model, DeepSeek, and made it available for Copilot+ PCs — and on the NPU, no less. If it seems like every other week something important is happening in the AI space — well,

Distilled R1 models can now run locally on Copilot Plus PCs, starting with Qualcomm Snapdragon X first and Intel chips later. This brings a lot more AI capabilities to Windows, and it’s something Microsoft was already working on with its Phi Silica language models.

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shocking Wall Street, insisted to me that it had been created by Microsoft. The question is why.