Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
The Verge Tom Warren ● Covered by 2 sources
Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia 300 in-house AI inference chip as the primary inference system for its products and services. It targets 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems. Maia 300 will begin rolling out to production in 2027, reducing Microsoft’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs for inference workloads.
Why it matters
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. 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. Maia 300 will […]