Overview
- Anthropic will buy $30 billion of Microsoft Azure capacity and contract up to 1 gigawatt of additional compute built on Nvidia Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.
- Nvidia and Anthropic formed a deep engineering collaboration to optimize Claude models for Nvidia hardware and to shape future Nvidia architectures for Anthropic workloads.
- Anthropic’s Claude family, including Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1 and Haiku 4.5, is coming to Azure AI Foundry with continued access across Microsoft’s Copilot products.
- Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic and Microsoft up to $5 billion, according to the joint announcement by the three companies.
- Multiple outlets reported a valuation near $350 billion for Anthropic and noted share declines for major tech names as investors questioned increasingly circular AI deals.