Technology · 23 June 2026
Microsoft may put China's DeepSeek inside Copilot
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Running AI agents has become so costly that Microsoft is weighing a Chinese model, despite the security worries that come with it. Axios reported last week that Microsoft is testing DeepSeek's latest model to power a cheaper tier of Copilot Cowork, its workplace AI assistant. It's still only an evaluation, and Microsoft says any version would run inside its own cloud with extra safeguards.
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