According to Brian Harry, a Microsoft technical fellow leading the Azure Maia team, the Maia 100 AI Accelerator has been designed specifically for the Azure hardware stack. He claimed this vertical integration - which aligns chip design with the larger AI infrastructure designed for Microsoft's workloads - can yield huge gains in performance and efficiency.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said: "Since first partnering with Microsoft, we've collaborated to co-design Azure's AI infrastructure at every layer for our models and unprecedented training needs. We were excited when Microsoft first shared their designs for the Maia chip, and we've worked together to refine and test it with our models. Azure's end-to-end AI architecture, now optimised down to the silicon with Maia, paves the way for training more capable models and making those models cheaper for our customers."
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