• Anthropic to scale Claude on AzureAnthropic to adopt NVIDIA architectureNVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic 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. • For the first time, NVIDIA and Anthropic are establishing a deep technology partnership to support Anthropic’s future growth. • Anthropic and NVIDIA will collaborate on design and engineering, with the goal of optimizing Anthropic models for the best possible performance, efficiency, and TCO, and optimizing future NVIDIA architectures for Anthropic workloads. • Anthropic’s compute commitment will initially be up to one gigawatt of compute capacity with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.
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- Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced a multi‑layered partnership to expand the reach and performance of Anthropic’s Claude AI model. Anthropic will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA hardware, committing up to $30 billion in Azure compute and up to one gigawatt of capacity on NVIDIA’s Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems. NVIDIA and Anthropic will collaborate on model optimization and future architecture design. Microsoft will broaden Claude access for its Foundry customers and Copilot suite, while both companies pledged investments of up to $10 billion (NVIDIA) and $5 billion (Microsoft) in Anthropic. The deal brings Claude to all three major cloud platforms.
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