Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced coordinated partnerships to scale Anthropic’s Claude Artificial Intelligence model on Microsoft Azure, with compute provided by NVIDIA hardware. the move is presented as a way to broaden access to Claude and to give Azure enterprise customers expanded model choice and new capabilities. Anthropic has committed to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and to contract additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt.
for the first time, NVIDIA and Anthropic are establishing a deep technology partnership intended to support Anthropic’s future growth. the two companies will collaborate on design and engineering with the stated goals of optimizing Anthropic models for performance, efficiency and TCO and of optimizing future NVIDIA architectures for Anthropic workloads. the initial compute commitment is described as up to one gigawatt of capacity running on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.
the announcements emphasize a combined cloud and hardware approach, pairing Anthropic’s rapidly growing Claude Artificial Intelligence model with Microsoft Azure as the delivery platform and NVIDIA as the underlying compute supplier. the stated commitments highlight both a commercial purchase agreement with Azure and a technical collaboration with NVIDIA to align model and architecture development. the companies framed the arrangements as expanding enterprise access to Claude while pursuing improved model performance, efficiency and cost characteristics through joint engineering work.
