Microsoft’s new Anthropic partnership brings Claude AI models to Azure

Microsoft is announcing a strategical concern with Anthropic contiguous that volition bring the AI startup’s models to Microsoft Foundry for the archetypal time. As part of the deal, Anthropic is besides committing to purchasing $30 cardinal of Azure compute capableness and “to contract additional compute capableness up to 1 gigawatt.”

Microsoft Foundry customers volition present 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 volition inactive stay Anthropic’s superior unreality supplier and grooming partner.

Nvidia and Anthropic are besides partnering contiguous arsenic portion of this deal, to optimize Anthropic’s models for the champion show connected aboriginal Nvidia architectures. Anthropic is committing to up to 1 gigawatt of compute capableness utilizing Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.

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

Microsoft’s woody with Anthropic comes conscionable weeks aft its OpenAI spouse completed its for-profit restructuring and struck a new woody with Microsoft. The caller woody with OpenAI extends Microsoft’s IP rights 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 the brace person present agreed the milestone would beryllium verified by an autarkic adept panel.

Microsoft and OpenAI person besides relaxed the exclusive parts of their concern adjacent more, allowing OpenAI to collaborate with 3rd parties and merchandise unfastened value models. Microsoft besides nary longer has the close of archetypal refusal to beryllium OpenAI’s compute provider.

All of these OpenAI concern changes person allowed Microsoft to prosecute this woody with 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 implicit 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.