What changed: Microsoft announced it will scale its Azure Maia AI chip family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system for its products and services. The second-generation Maia 200 is already serving production workloads including Microsoft Copilot, with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry to follow by year-end. The third-generation Maia 300 begins production in 2027 and is expected to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems, with up to 7x the rack-scale token throughput of Maia 200 in a full 96-accelerator configuration.
Who is affected
The source does not name specific businesses; the change concerns companies that rely on Microsoft Copilot, Teams, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.
What it means for your business
For businesses using Microsoft Copilot, Teams or Cowork, Microsoft says Maia 200 already delivers up to 1.7x more tokens per watt for these built-in AI features compared with leading GPU infrastructure.
What to watch
No action is required right now. Track Maia 300's 2027 production rollout and its expansion to GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry, and reassess if this infrastructure shift affects the pricing or terms of products you use.
Timing
Maia 200 is already in production; Maia 300 begins production deployments in 2027, with multi-gigawatt scaling also starting in 2027.
