Microsoft’s latest AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia
- Jan 29
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The Maia 200 chip, which is being produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is making its way to Microsoft data centers in Iowa, with deployments headed to the Phoenix area next.
Microsoft invited developers on Monday to start using Maia’s control software, but it’s not clear when users of the company’s Azure cloud service will be able to utilize servers running on the chip.
Some of the first units will go to Microsoft’s superintelligence team, generating data to improve the next generation of AI models, cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie said in a blog post. The chips will also be used to power the Copilot assistant for businesses and AI models, including OpenAI’s latest, that Microsoft rents to cloud customers.
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