Microsoft’s New Anthropic Partnership Brings Claude Ai Models To Azure

Microsoft is announcing a strategical business pinch Anthropic coming that will bring nan AI startup’s models to Microsoft Foundry for nan first time. As part of nan deal, Anthropic is besides committing to purchasing $30 cardinal of Azure compute capacity and “to contract additional compute capacity up to 1 gigawatt.”

Microsoft Foundry customers will now beryllium capable to entree Anthropic’s frontier Claude models including Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Haiku 4.5. Despite these models coming to Microsoft’s AI servers, Amazon will still stay Anthropic’s superior unreality supplier and training partner.

Nvidia and Anthropic are besides partnering coming arsenic portion of this deal, to optimize Anthropic’s models for nan champion capacity connected early Nvidia architectures. Anthropic is committing to up to 1 gigawatt of compute capacity utilizing Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.

As portion of these partnerships, Nvidia is investing up to $10 cardinal successful Anthropic, pinch Microsoft besides investing $5 billion.

Microsoft’s woody pinch Anthropic comes conscionable weeks aft its OpenAI partner completed its for-profit restructuring and struck a new woody pinch Microsoft. The caller woody pinch OpenAI extends Microsoft’s IP authorities to models from OpenAI done 2032 and besides includes post-AGI (artificial wide intelligence) models. The imaginable for a declaration of AGI had been a sticking constituent successful Microsoft’s OpenAI deal, but nan brace person now agreed nan milestone would beryllium verified by an independent master panel.

Microsoft and OpenAI person besides relaxed nan exclusive parts of their business moreover more, allowing OpenAI to collaborate pinch 3rd parties and merchandise unfastened weight models. Microsoft besides nary longer has nan correct of first refusal to beryllium OpenAI’s compute provider.

All of these OpenAI business changes person allowed Microsoft to prosecute this woody pinch Anthropic. Microsoft has been progressively embracing Anthropic’s models crossed its Copilot services successful caller months. In fact, Microsoft has been favoring Anthropic’s Claude 4 complete GPT-5 successful its caller car AI exemplary selector successful Visual Studio Code. Microsoft besides brought Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users recently.