Microsoft Mulls China's DeepSeek for Copilot, Probably to Trump's Chagrin

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To compete with Anthropic and OpenClaw, Microsoft launched its own assistant a few months ago to automate office tasks, with pay-as-you-go pricing. To reduce the cost of data inference, the company is considering integrating a version of DeepSeek hosted on Azure, with data remaining in the Microsoft cloud and not transiting through China. However, DeepSeek is Chinese, and Washington is monitoring this kind of thing very closely.

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Microsoft has for several years been the giant in support of OpenAI. But in 2026, the group opened up to other players in the sector, and perhaps some of Chinese origin!