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,

Fed up with CoPilot's chatty style, I wanted to see if the new DeepSeek R1 AI would be a better assistant, here's what I learned.

To run DeepSeek for the first time, just open your terminal and type: "ollama run deepseek-r1:8b" (without the double quotes). The model downloads and launches on your machine automatically.

Microsoft makes DeepSeek locally available on Copilot+ PCs. Model to arrive first on Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors — Intel and AMD chips to follow.

Microsoft has announced that it is bringing distilled DeepSeek R1 to Copilot+ PCs, with the NPU-optimized AI model coming to Snapdragon X PCs first.