Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
The Verge – AI reports: 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…
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· Oct 18, 2026
The Verge – AI reports: 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 300 will […]
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- Source: The Verge – AI
- Published: October 12, 2026
- Topics: AI Chips, Microsoft, Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents
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