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Microsoft has begun deploying its self-developed Maia 200 AI chips but CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the company will continue to buy chips from Nvidia and AMD, emphasizing ongoing partnerships and mutual innovation.
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微軟已開始部署自家研發的Maia 200 AI晶片，但執行長薩提亞·納德拉證實，公司將繼續採購輝達和AMD的晶片，強調雙方持續的合作夥伴關係與共同創新。
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Microsoft this week deployed its first crop of its homegrown AI chips in one of its data centers, with plans to roll out more in the coming months, it says.
The chip, named the Maia 200, is designed to be what Microsoft calls an “AI inference powerhouse” as Microsoft describes, meaning it’s optimized for the compute-intensive work of running AI models in production. The company released some impressive processing-speed specs for Maia, saying it outperforms Amazon’s latest Trainium chips and Google’s latest Tensor Processing Units (TPU).
All of the cloud giants are turning to their own AI chip designs in part because of the difficulty, and expense, of obtaining the latest and greatest from Nvidia — a supply crunch that shows no signs of abating.
But even with its own state-of-the-art, high-performance chip in hand, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company will still be buying chips made by others.
“We have a great partnership with Nvidia, with AMD. They are innovating. We are innovating,” he explained. “I think a lot of folks just talk about who’s ahead. Just remember, you have to be ahead for all time to come.”
He added: “Because we can vertically integrate doesn’t mean we just only vertically integrate,” meaning building its own systems from top to bottom, without using wares from other vendors.
That said, Maia 200 will be used by Microsoft’s own so-called Superintelligence team, the AI specialists building the software giant’s own frontier models. That’s according to Mustafa Suleyman, the former Google DeepMind co-founder who now leads the team. Microsoft is working on its own models to perhaps one day lessen its reliance on OpenAI, Anthropic, and other model makers.
The Maia 200 chip will also support OpenAI’s models running on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, the company says. But, by all accounts, securing access to the most advanced AI hardware is still a challenge for everyone, paying customers and internal teams alike.
So in a post on X, Suleyman clearly relished sharing the news that his team gets first dibs. “It’s a big day,” he wrote when the chip launched. “Our Superintelligence team will be the first to use Maia 200 as we develop our frontier AI models.”
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