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Microsoft’s Maia Chip Targets A.I. Inference as Big Tech Rethinks Training
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chip, Maia 200, calling it “the most efficient inference system” the company has ever built.
Alongside Maia 200, Microsoft also previewed a full software development kit (SDK).
Maia 200 will power inference workloads for OpenAI’s GPT-5.2, Microsoft 365 Copilot and synthetic data generation pipelines used by Microsoft’s Superintelligence team.
Amazon, meanwhile, offers Trainium chips for training and Inferentia chips for inference, targeting AWS customers with large-scale but cost-sensitive A.I.
Together, these efforts signal a growing push by tech giants to control more of the A.I.