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Microsoft is currently conducting the largest infrastructure buildout that humanity has ever seen.


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This infrastructure buildout is aimed squarely at accelerating the path to AGI and bringing the intelligence of generative AI to every facet of life from productivity applications to leisure. There are 2 major silicon announcements for today’s Azure Ignite event, the Cobalt 100 CPUs and the Maia 100 AI accelerators (also known as Athena or M100). We will dive into Maia 100 volumes, competitiveness with AMD MI300X, Nvidia H100/H200/B100, Google’s TPUv5, Amazon’s Trainium/Inferentia2, and Microsoft’s long-term plans with AI silicon including the next generation chip.

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