Microsoft Introduced the Maia 300 AI Chip (4 minute read)

# Before - Microsoft's latest custom chip: Maia 300 Source: [https://news.microsoft.com/maia-2026/](https://news.microsoft.com/maia-2026/)  ### Azure Maia 300 System  ### Azure Maia 300 chip render  ### Azure Maia 300 chip to server to rack render  ### Scott Guthrie, EVP, Cloud \+ AI Group, on Microsoft’s production\-scale, full\-stack AI advantage  ### Rani Borkar, president, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure, on systems approach to efficient inference  ### Saurabh Dighe, CVP, Azure Hardware Systems Planning and Architecture, on advances across the infrastructure layers  ### Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI, on chip\-model co\-design for frontier superintelligence  ### Jim Kleewein, Technical Fellow, Microsoft 365, on Maia powering AI experiences in Microsoft 365