Microsoft's Maia 300 chip aims to cut its Nvidia bill for AI inference

Microsoft says Azure Maia will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system for its own products and services. Maia 200 is already in production. Microsoft claims Maia 300 (2027) delivers 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems, and up to 7× the rack-scale throughput of Maia 200.