Microsoft's new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia's GPUs

Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia 300 in-house AI chip, designed to be the primary AI inference system for Microsoft's products and services. The chip improves cost and efficiency for cloud AI workloads and is better suited for the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks, with production rollout planned for 2027. Microsoft says Maia 300 will deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt compared to leading GPU-based systems.