Microsoft's chief executive in his own words: Maia scales to multi-gigawatt deployments from next calendar year as the primary inference system for Microsoft's products, and Maia 300 claims 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU systems. This is the source behind Monday's reports that Microsoft will lean more on its own chips, and a hyperscaler moving its inference off merchant GPUs is a direct test of the AI-spending supplier case.
Today we are announcing our biggest bet yet on our own silicon. Starting next calendar year, we will scale our Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments, making it the primary inference system for our own product and services. And we’re introducing Maia 300, which delivers 40%
Microsoft's chief executive in his own words: Maia scales to multi-gigawatt deployments from next calendar year as the primary inference system for Microsoft's products, and Maia 300 claims 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU systems. This is the source behind Monday's reports that Microsoft will lean more on its own chips, and a hyperscaler moving its inference off merchant GPUs is a direct test of the AI-spending supplier case.
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