Microsoft Partners with Anthropic to Bring Claude AI Models to Azure
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Summary
Microsoft announces a strategic partnership with AI startup Anthropic to bring Claude AI models to Microsoft Foundry for the first time. The deal includes Anthropic committing to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and additional capacity up to one gigawatt. Microsoft Foundry customers will gain access to Anthropic's Claude models including Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Haiku 4.5. Despite this partnership, Amazon remains Anthropic's primary cloud provider and training partner. The article also mentions that Microsoft and Nvidia are investing in Anthropic as part of new strategic partnerships.
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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.
Despite these models coming to Microsoft's AI servers, Amazon will still remain Anthropic's primary cloud provider and training partner.
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