Microsoft is expanding AI services to Chinese firms through Azure, providing access to OpenAI models despite growing US-China technology tensions.

Microsoft integrates DeepSeek's AI models into Azure and tests them for Copilot, even as partners OpenAI and Anthropic warn about Chinese model

Microsoft's Azure AI revenue in China tripled last fiscal year as ByteDance, Ant Group, and Tencent fuel growth while OpenAI and Anthropic stay on the