微软今日宣布其第三代内部AI芯片Maia，旨在成为微软产品和服务的“主要AI推理系统”。Maia 300不仅提升了云端运行AI工作负载的成本和效率，还更能胜任最新的推理模型和代理任务。
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计划于2027年开始投产，并在设计时注重效率。微软云业务执行副总裁Scott Guthrie表示：“我们预计Maia 300每兆瓦可提供的令牌数比领先的基于GPU的系统高出40%。并且在完整的96加速…
Maia 300 will start being rolled out to production in 2027, and it has been designed with efficiency in mind. "We expect Maia 300 to deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt compared to leading GPU-based systems," says Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud group. "And in a full 96-acceler …