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December 16, 2025
Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships.
Today Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with 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.
TL;DR
- Anthropic will scale its Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure.
- Anthropic commits to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and additional capacity up to one gigawatt.
- NVIDIA and Anthropic will collaborate on optimizing AI models and future NVIDIA architectures.
- Anthropic's compute commitment will utilize NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.
- Microsoft Foundry customers will gain access to Anthropic's Claude models.
- Claude will be available on all three major cloud services.
- Microsoft will maintain access to Claude across its Copilot family.
- NVIDIA will invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic.
- Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic.
- Amazon remains Anthropic's primary cloud provider and training partner.
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