AI lab Anthropic is said to be in talks to use Microsoft's custom AI chips.
As reported by The Information and citing executives involved in the discussion, the possibility of using Microsoft's custom chips comes as the AI lab continues to increase its Azure cloud usage.
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Microsoft is behind the Maia AI chips, and earlier this year, the company announced that the latest generation - the Maia 200 - is now running in its data centers.
The Maia 200 is built using TSMC's 3nm technology and delivers around 10 petaflops of FP4 and five petaflops of FP8 compute performance within a 750W SoC (System-on-Chip) TDP (Thermal Design Power) envelope, the chip has a “redesigned memory system” comprising 216GB HBM3e at seven Tbps and 272MB of on-chip SRAM, alongside data movement engines.
