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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.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The chip, named the Maia 200, is designed to be what Microsoft calls an \u201cAI inference powerhouse,\u201d meaning it\u2019s 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\u2019s latest Trainium<\/a> chips and Google\u2019s latest Tensor Processing Units (TPU).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 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 \u2014 a supply crunch that shows no signs of abating.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a great partnership with Nvidia, with AMD. They are innovating. We are innovating,\u201d he explained. \u201cI think a lot of folks just talk about who\u2019s ahead. Just remember, you have to be ahead for all time to come.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He added: \u201cBecause we can vertically integrate doesn\u2019t mean we just only vertically integrate,\u201d meaning building its own systems from top to bottom, without using wares from other vendors.\u00a0<\/p>\n That said, Maia 200 will be used by Microsoft\u2019s own so-called Superintelligence team, the AI specialists building the software giant\u2019s own frontier models. That\u2019s according to Mustafa Suleyman<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston, MA<\/span> The Maia 200 chip will also support OpenAI\u2019s models running on Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud platform, the company says.\u00a0But, by all accounts, securing access to the most advanced AI hardware<\/a> is still a challenge for everyone, paying customers and internal teams alike.<\/p>\n
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