New Delhi, Jan. 27 -- Microsoft launches its latest second-generation AI chip Maia 200, the company describes it as an "AI inference powerhouse", to power inference workloads across Azure and internal services.

The Superintelligence team at Microsoft will use Maia 200 for synthetic data creation and reinforcement learning to improve its upcoming in-house AI models

The 200, which is a second-generation chip released two years after the Maia 100's release in October 2023, is set to be deployed at its central datacenter region near Iowa, following which it will be launched in other datacentres such as Arizona and more to follow the company said.

Maia 100 was not available to the public or cloud customers was built mainly for Microsoft's i...