Microsoft and NVIDIA Partner with Anthropic to Scale Claude AI on Azure

November 18, 2025

Details

  • Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced a major partnership on November 18, 2025, to advance Claude AI models across enterprise cloud infrastructure.
  • Anthropic will purchase $30 billion in Azure compute capacity, including up to 1 gigawatt of computing power using NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin accelerators.
  • Claude AI models—Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5—will be available through Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, making Claude the only frontier LLM available on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
  • NVIDIA and Anthropic are collaborating on deep technology optimization, while Microsoft broadens Claude access within its Copilot suite, such as GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio.
  • NVIDIA is investing up to $10 billion and Microsoft up to $5 billion in Anthropic, underscoring significant confidence in Anthropic’s growth and technology roadmap.

Impact

This partnership positions Anthropic as a primary provider in Microsoft's AI ecosystem, expanding options beyond existing collaborations with OpenAI and Google. The massive Azure commitment and NVIDIA partnership will speed up enterprise AI adoption and enable greater flexibility. Claude’s presence on all major clouds exemplifies the industry’s move toward multi-vendor AI strategies, offering enterprises unprecedented freedom in model selection.

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