Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
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Microsoft has introduced its new Maia 300 chip, marking the company's third-generation in-house artificial intelligence processor. This custom hardware is built to serve as the main inference system for Microsoft services, reducing the company's dependence on Nvidia graphics processing units.
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…
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