Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft

Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI spot today, designed to beryllium the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not lone improves the outgo and ratio of moving AI workloads successful the cloud, it's besides much susceptible of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks.

Maia 300 volition commencement being rolled retired to accumulation successful 2027, and it has been designed with ratio successful mind. "We expect Maia 300 to present 40 percent much tokens per megawatt compared to starring GPU-based systems," says Scott Guthrie, enforcement vice president of Microsoft's unreality group. "And successful a afloat 96-acceler …

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