San Francisco, November 16: Heating up the AI race, Microsoft has unveiled two in-house, custom-designed chips and integrated systems that can be used to train large language models. The Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator is optimised for artificial intelligence (AI) tasks and generative AI, and the Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, an Arm-based processor, is tailored to run general purpose compute workloads on the Microsoft Cloud.

The chips will start to roll out early next year to Microsoft슬롯사이트™s data centres, initially powering the company슬롯사이트™s services such as Microsoft Copilot or Azure OpenAI Service,슬롯사이트 the company said at its 슬롯사이트˜Microsoft Ignite슬롯사이트™ event late on Wednesday.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천 슬롯사이트œMicrosoft is building the infrastructure to support AI innovation, and we are reimagining every aspect of our data centres to meet the needs of our customers,슬롯사이트 said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft슬롯사이트™s Cloud + AI Group.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천X Banned Over 2 Lakh Accounts in India in October 2023 for Promoting Child Sexual Exploitation and Non-Consensual Nudity.

Microsoft sees the addition of homegrown chips as a way to ensure every element is tailored for Microsoft cloud and AI workloads. The end goal is an Azure hardware system that offers maximum flexibility and can also be optimized for power, performance, sustainability or cost, said Rani Borkar, corporate vice president for Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI).

슬롯사이트œSoftware is our core strength, but frankly, we are a systems company. At Microsoft we are co-designing and optimising hardware and software together so that one plus one is greater than two,슬롯사이트 Borkar said. 슬롯사이트œWe have visibility into the entire stack, and silicon is just one of the ingredients,슬롯사이트 she added.

At Microsoft Ignite, the company also announced the general availability of one of those key ingredients: Azure Boost, a system that makes storage and networking faster by taking those processes off the host servers onto purpose-built hardware and software. To complement its custom silicon efforts, Microsoft also announced it is expanding industry partnerships to provide more infrastructure options for customers.

By adding first party silicon to a growing ecosystem of chips and hardware from industry partners, Microsoft will be able to offer more choice in price and performance for its customers, Borkar said. Additionally, OpenAI has provided feedback on Azure Maia and Microsoft슬롯사이트™s deep insights into how OpenAI슬롯사이트™s workloads run on infrastructure tailored for its large language models is helping inform future Microsoft designs.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천WhatsApp Channels Crosses 500 Million Monthly Active Users in First 7 Weeks.

슬롯사이트œSince first partnering with Microsoft, we슬롯사이트™ve collaborated to co-design Azure슬롯사이트™s AI infrastructure at every layer for our models and unprecedented training needs,슬롯사이트 said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. 슬롯사이트œAzure슬롯사이트™s end-to-end AI architecture, now optimized down to the silicon with Maia, paves the way for training more capable models and making those models cheaper for our customers,슬롯사이트 Altman added.

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