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Microsoft’s Azure Maia 200 signals a pivotal shift in AI infrastructure, where inferencing workloads now eclipse training in scale and cost. As Andrew Wall, General Manager of Azure Maia, notes, early GPT-4 training consumed 25,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs over months, but continuous inferencing for ChatGPT demanded far more compute on Azure—prompting purpose-built accelerators like Maia…