Microsoft Announces Maia 300 AI Chip, Multi-Gigawatt Azure Scale-Up

Microsoft on October 12, 2026 introduced Azure Maia 300, the third generation of its in-house AI accelerator family, and said it will scale the Azure Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system across its products and services. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud + AI, announced the chip in an Official Microsoft Blog post, describing Maia 300 as a "complete intelligent system" designed for long-context reasoning...