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Microsoft Sets 2027 Start for Maia 300 as Azure Plans Multi-Gigawatt AI Inference
Microsoft says Maia 300 production deployments will begin in 2027, as it scales its custom AI-accelerator program for inference across Azure.
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Microsoft Launches Decision-1: Fast Decision-Scoring Model Built on Qwen3.5-9B
Microsoft introduced Microsoft-Decision-1 on October 9, 2026, a specialized decision-scoring model post-trained from Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B. It returns calibrated probabilities for fixed answer options and is available in Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter.