Microsoft says Azure Maia will become its primary inference platform, plans multi-gigawatt Maia 300 rollouts in 2027
Microsoft announced plans to scale its custom Azure Maia accelerators to multi-gigawatt data center deployments and introduced Maia 300, a third generation inference system built for long context, latency sensitive and agentic AI workloads. The move signals a larger industry shift toward in house silicon and raises questions about cloud economics, power demand and vendor relationships.