Microsoft unveils Azure Maia 300 and plans multi-gigawatt deployments as its primary inference system
Microsoft announced on October 12, 2026, Azure Maia 300, its third-generation inference accelerator headed for production in 2027, and said it will scale the Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments as the primary inference system for Microsoft products, targeting up to 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems.