DeepSeek has successfully transitioned from the mobile realm to the Windows platform, courtesy of a partnership with Microsoft. The integration includes the addition of the DeepSeek R1 model to Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry, enabling developers to build cloud-based applications. Initial availability focuses on Snapdragon X-chip powered devices, with even more capable 7B and 14B models set for release. Microsoft has optimized these models for specific hardware, resulting in impressive performance metrics, including a quick token response time and significant throughput. This collaborative effort signals Microsoft's commitment to diverse AI models alongside its existing OpenAI partnerships.
Model distillation, sometimes called "knowledge distillation", is the process of taking a large AI model (the full DeepSeek R1 has more than 14 billion parameters) and creating smaller, optimized versions for specific hardware.
With optimizations, Microsoft managed to achieve fast time to first token (130ms) and a throughput rate of 16 tokens per second for short prompts.
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