Microsoft unveils Maia 300, its most powerful AI chip yet - and it might make using Teams, Copilot and Cowork much…
- Microsoft reveals Maia 300, its latest AI chip
- Designed for "inference-first", Maia 300 offers huge improvements in efficiency and power
- Maia 300 will begin deploying in 2027
Microsoft has revealed Maia 300, the next generation of its Azure hardware as it prepares to scale up its in-house AI infrastructure to multi-gigawatt deployments.
The company says Maia 300, set to begin deployment in 2027, will deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than other leading GPU-based system - designed primarily for inference, the new release targets long-context reasoning, responsive conversational AI and sustained, multi-step agent tasks.
Microsoft says a rack containing 96 Maia 300 accelerators will provide up to seven times the rack-scale token throughput of a Maia 200 rack.
Inference-first
Interestingly Microsoft says it expects Maia 300 to help support a new generation of AI across its products and services, from agentic coding in GitHub to large-scale model serving through Microsoft...
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