Microsoft, Nvidia Invest Up to $15B in Anthropic

Microsoft and Nvidia announced strategic partnerships with AI startup Anthropic on Tuesday, committing up to $5 billion and $10 billion respectively to invest in the company as part of a broader deal that includes Anthropic's pledge to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure cloud computing capacity.

The agreements, unveiled during Microsoft's Ignite conference, aim to accelerate Anthropic's development of its Claude family of large language models while expanding access to the technology across major cloud platforms. Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives and valued at around $18 billion, will also contract up to 1 gigawatt of data center infrastructure powered by Nvidia's Grace Blackwell systems and upcoming Vera Rubin platforms. This marks the first deep technology collaboration between Nvidia and Anthropic, focusing on joint design and engineering to optimize model performance, efficiency, and cost for future workloads.

Under the Microsoft partnership, Anthropic's latest Claude models, including Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5, will become available to customers through the Azure AI Foundry. The companies stated that this integration positions Claude as the...