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Microsoft Built Its Own AI Chip and Plans to Run Its Office Suite on It
The Maia 300 is designed to run frontier AI models inside Azure data centres, reducing Microsoft's reliance on outside chip suppliers and lowering the cost of every AI answer it serves.
d-Matrix Plugs Its AI Chips Into NVIDIA's Factory Platform
A chipmaker building specialist inference processors just found a shortcut to deploying them at scale, and the technical gap it closes is bigger than the announcement looks.
OpenAI Built Its First AI Chip Using Its Own AI, And Did It in Under 20 Months
The Jalapeño chip promises to cut response times by up to 3.6 times compared to the Nvidia hardware OpenAI currently relies on. The wilder story is how a team of fewer than 100 people built it so fast.
NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion Lets Chipmakers Plug Their Own AI Chips Into NVIDIA's Data Centre Infrastructure
A new programme lets companies building their own specialised AI chips skip years of infrastructure work by connecting directly into NVIDIA's existing data centre plumbing.
Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips
The company behind the Claude chatbot is hiring chip designers to make its AI faster and cheaper to run, following a path already taken by OpenAI, Google and Meta.