Overview
- Anthropic agreed to purchase $30 billion of Microsoft Azure compute and to contract for additional capacity up to 1 gigawatt.
- Claude will scale on Azure using Nvidia’s Grace CPUs and Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs.
- Anthropic and Nvidia will co‑engineer to optimize future Claude models for upcoming Nvidia GPU architectures.
- Microsoft and Nvidia will invest in Anthropic, according to company announcements reported by financial outlets.
- Anthropic remains multi‑cloud with Amazon as its primary training partner, while OpenAI’s Azure commitment is larger at a reported $250 billion through 2032.