Microsoft to scale Maia AI chips to gigawatts by 2027

microsoft plans to deploy its azure maia ai chips at multi-gigawatt scale starting in 2027. the company's executive scott guthrie writes that they will become the main inference system across its products. maia 200 is already running microsoft copilot in the us, europe, and australia, with github copilot and foundry following by year's end. microsoft ceo satya nadella calls it 'our biggest bet yet on our own silicon.' the chip handles openai, mai, and open-source models. microsoft claims the maia 200 chip pushes up to 1.7 times more tokens per watt than leading gpus in teams. the successor, maia 300, ships in 2027 and targets long inputs, fast chats, and agentic tasks, with 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading gpu systems.