"Microsoft is announcing a strategic partnership with Anthropic today that will bring the AI startup's models to Microsoft Foundry for the first time. As part of the deal, Anthropic is also committing to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and "to contract additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt." Microsoft Foundry customers will now be able to access Anthropic's frontier Claude models including Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Haiku 4.5."
"Nvidia and Anthropic are also partnering today as part of this deal, to optimize Anthropic's models for the best performance on future Nvidia architectures. Anthropic is committing to up to one gigawatt of compute capacity using Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems. As part of these partnerships, Nvidia is investing up to $10 billion in Anthropic, with Microsoft also investing $5 billion."
Microsoft entered a strategic partnership with Anthropic to bring Anthropic's Claude models to Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic committed to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and to contract additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt. Microsoft Foundry customers will gain access to Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Haiku 4.5. Amazon will remain Anthropic's primary cloud provider and training partner. Nvidia and Anthropic will optimize the models for future Nvidia architectures, with Anthropic committing up to one gigawatt on Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems. Nvidia committed up to $10 billion and Microsoft $5 billion in investments. Microsoft has integrated Anthropic models across Copilot services and favored Claude 4 in Visual Studio Code's auto AI model selector, and added Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
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