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Microsoft’s Maia Chip Targets A.I. Inference as Big Tech Rethinks Training
Microsoft this week (Jan. 26) unveiled its latest in-house A.I. chip, Maia 200, calling it “the most efficient inference system” the company has ever built. Microsoft claims the chip outperforms rival Big Tech processors such as Amazon’s Trainium 3 and Google’s TPU v7 on key benchmarks, while delivering 30 percent better performance per dollar than its existing Azure hardware fleet. Maia 200 is a custom application-specific integrated circuit (A…
When we talk about big models, we usually imagine the epic moment of training, as if it were filming a movie. In practice, what is more expensive is not to record, but to broadcast the series every day to millions of people. That “emission” is called inference, the work of generating real-time responses when someone uses a chatbot, a productivity copilot or a customer service system. Microsoft has been insisting that the bottleneck is no longer …
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