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Microsoft DeepSeek: a Chinese Model for Copilot Cowork?

Summary by TNW
Microsoft is weighing a self-hosted DeepSeek model to cut Copilot Cowork's costs, a Chinese-AI move likely to draw Trump-administration scrutiny.

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Microsoft has put Copilot Cowork in overall availability and, at the same time, has opened the door to a rather sensitive, almost compromising change within its Artificial Intelligence strategy for companies: using a cheaper model that reduces the cost of long, repeated, and modeled tasks. According to Axis, the company is exploring a tight version of DeepSeek V4, or some other similar open-source model, as a lower-cost option compared to the Op…

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it is transitioning its Copilot Cowork intelligent agent product to a pay-as-you-go model and is considering adopting open-source models such as DeepSeek V4 to address the issue of "AI being too expensive." Microsoft is responsible for Copilot, intelligent agents, and the platform.

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Wccftech broke the news on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
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