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Microsoft introduces Maia 300 and plans multi-gigawatt Maia deployments
What happened
Microsoft is introducing Maia 300, which Satya Nadella says delivers 40% more tokens per watt compared to leading GPU-based systems. Starting next calendar year, Microsoft will scale its Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments, making it the primary inference system for its own products and services. Microsoft is already deploying Maia 200 across the US, Europe, and Australia, delivering up to 1.7x more tokens per watt across experiences in Teams and Copilot, with a goal of building on full-stack efficiency gains while continuing to bring ecosystem innovations into its fleet.
Why it matters
Making Maia the primary inference system for Microsoft’s own products and services gives its stated efficiency gains a concrete deployment context.
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