As part of the deal, Anthropic is also committing to purchasing US$30 billion of Azure compute capacity and “to contract additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt”.
Powered by Nvidia, Anthropic is looking to scale its fast-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure. The AI leader hopes that this will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities.
As part of its $30 billion purchase, Anthropic has contracted additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt.
This is a landmark partnership for the three companies, who are establishing a deep technology partnership. Nvidia and Anthropic are collaborating for the first time to support the Claude-maker’s future growth, with both organisations collaborating on design and engineering. The goal is to optimise Anthropic models for the best possible performance, efficiency and TCO – optimising future Nvidia architectures for Anthropic workloads.
Anthropic’s compute commitment will initially be one gigawatt of compute capacity with Nvidia Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.
Additionally, Microsoft and Anthropic are expanding their existing partnership to provide broader access to Claude for businesses. Customers of Microsoft Foundry will be able to access Claude models like Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1 and Haiku 4.5 – some of the most powerful Anthropic has on offer. Azure customers will also gain access to Claude capabilities.
Microsoft has committed to continuing access for Claude across Microsoft’s Copilot family, including GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio.
As part of this partnership, both Nvidia and Microsoft are pledging to invest up to $10 billion and up to $5 billion respectively in Anthropic.
Anthropic has launched into globally expanding its services in recent months. The company recently announced another landmark cloud partnership with Google Cloud, gaining access to up to one million Google Cloud chips, or TPUs, to train and run its AI models.
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