Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services.
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Key points
- Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft
- Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it's also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks.
- Microsoft will make its in-house Azure Maia chips the main AI inference system across its products starting in 2027, deploying them at multi-gigawatt scale.
- The article Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027 appeared first on The Decoder.
Sources (2)
- [1]Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUsThe Verge: AI · Oct 12, 01:00 PM
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services.
Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft
- [2]Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027The Decoder · Oct 12, 03:24 PM
Microsoft will make its in-house Azure Maia chips the main AI inference system across its products starting in 2027, deploying them at multi-gigawatt scale.
The article Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027 appeared first on The Decoder.
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