By Jordan Novet
Publication Date: 2026-01-26 16:00:00
Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of cloud and enterprise at Microsoft, speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle on May 7, 2018. The Build conference, marking its second consecutive year in Seattle, is expected to put emphasis on the company’s cloud technologies and the artificial intelligence features within those services.
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Microsoft announced the next generation of its artificial intelligence chip, a potential alternative to leading processors from Nvidia and to offerings from cloud rivals Amazon and Google.
The Maia 200 comes two years after Microsoft said it had developed its first AI chip, the Maia 100, which was never made available for cloud clients to rent. Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive vice president for cloud and AI, said in a blog post Monday that, for the new chip, there will be “wider customer availability in the future.”
Guthrie called the Maia 200 “the most efficient inference system Microsoft…
