Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration

Microsoft announced its next-generation AI accelerator, Azure Maia 300, designed for inference workloads and expected to deliver 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU-based systems.

The company also introduced Cobalt 200, an agent-native CPU with over 50% performance improvement over Cobalt 100 and 33% lower agent call latency.

Additionally, Microsoft detailed networking innovations including Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) and the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA), as well as power infrastructure advances through the Open Compute Project.