Anthropic explores Microsoft Maia chips for cloud compute
Anthropic is reportedly in early discussions to rent server capacity powered by Microsoft’s Maia chips, according to The Information and CNBC.
The talks come shortly after Anthropic agreed to use Google’s cloud infrastructure and Tensor Processing Units under a large multi-year agreement. They also follow a separate Microsoft agreement announced in November. Under that deal, Microsoft said it would invest US$5 billion in Anthropic, while Anthropic committed to spending US$30 billion on Azure.
As part of that Microsoft agreement, Anthropic also committed to contract additional compute capacity of up to 1GW. Anthropic also uses cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
Microsoft Maia talks remain early
The servers under discussion would use Maia, Microsoft’s in-house AI accelerator. Microsoft has announced its second-generation Maia AI chip, but the processor is not yet available through Azure.
Maia 200 is designed for AI inference. Microsoft said the chip delivers 30%...
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