Microsoft and Nvidia Pledge Up to $15 Billion to Anthropic to Secure AI Scale

Overview

• Anthropic will receive up to $10 billion from Nvidia and up to $5 billion from Microsoft, according to the companies.
• Anthropic committed to buy at least $30 billion of capacity on Microsoft Azure to train and deploy Claude.
• Anthropic agreed to procure 1 gigawatt of Nvidia Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems, with Nvidia engineers collaborating on future chip integration.
• Microsoft will make Anthropic’s Claude models available to Copilot users and to customers through Azure AI Foundry.
• The deal deepens Anthropic’s multi-vendor strategy following its October announcement to access up to 1 million Google AI chips, alongside plans disclosed to invest $50 billion in U.S. AI data centers.