MS AI chief Scott Guthrie called the Maia 200 “the most efficient inference system Microsoft has ever deployed.”
It is made on TSMC’s 3nm process.
Developers, academics, AI labs and people contributing to open-source AI models can apply for a preview of a software development kit.
The MS superintelligence team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, will use the new chip.
Also the 365 Copilot add-on for commercial productivity software bundles and the MS Foundry service, for building on top of AI models, will use the chip..
Microsoft is installing the processor in its US Central region of datacentres first and then in the U.S. West 3 region datacentres.
According to Guthrie, the chip delivers 30% higher performance than alternatives for the same price,
MS can connect up to 6,144 Maia 200s.
