Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
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Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia 300 AI chip, designed to serve as the primary AI inference system for its products and services while reducing dependence on Nvidia GPUs. The chip, set for production rollout in 2027, promises improved cost efficiency for cloud-based AI workloads and enhanced capability for handling reasoning models and agentic tasks.
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Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft 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 start being rolled out to production in 2027, and it has been designed with efficiency in mind. "We expec
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