With insights from a post made on November 15, 2023, Microsoft, a tech company, announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator, stated Cointelegraph.
The chip is expected to be designed for AI tasks and generative AI and debuted alongside the Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, which was designed to compute workloads on Microsoft Cloud. It is believed that Microsoft called the two chips the “last puzzle piece” for Microsoft infrastructure systems, Cointelegraph added.
“At the scale we operate, we need to optimize and integrate every layer of the infrastructure stack to maximize performance, diversify our supply chain and give customers infrastructure choice,” Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Microsoft’s Cloud + AI Group, explained.
It is expected that OpenAI, an AI company, which is backed by Microsoft, is said to have provided feedback on the new Maia 100 AI Accelerator. Furthermore, they also provided feedback on the workloads run on top of the new infrastructure, Cointelegraph concluded.
(With insights from Cointelegraph)
