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Microsoft and Nvidia Forge Three-Way Deal With Anthropic to Bring Claude to Azure

The pact features a $30 billion Azure compute order plus up to 1 gigawatt of capacity, with joint engineering to optimize Nvidia hardware for Claude.

Overview

  • Anthropic will deploy its Claude models on Microsoft Azure using Nvidia-powered infrastructure, expanding access for Azure enterprise customers.
  • Nvidia and Microsoft pledged direct investments in Anthropic of up to $10 billion and up to $5 billion respectively, according to company statements.
  • Initial capacity will run on Nvidia Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems as the companies co-design future hardware tuned for Anthropic workloads.
  • Claude will become the only frontier large language model available across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, broadening multi-cloud options for enterprises.
  • Some outlets report the new financing could value Anthropic near $350 billion, though terms and a final valuation have not been formally disclosed.