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 check how many credits you have left, you can click the little menu icon in the Copilot sidebar in an Office app and then click “AI credit balance.” This will take you to your Microsoft 365 account subscription page, where you can see a running balance of the AI credits you’ve used.

Microsoft confirmed it will bring the DeepSeek R1 model to Azure cloud and GitHub in a move that it hopes will lessen its reliance on OpenAI's models.

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.