Anthropic has announced the general availability of its Claude AI models on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GPUs.
Anthropic & NVIDIA Bring Claude AI Models to Microsoft Azure - Running on NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GB300 Platform
As Agentic workloads continue to drive the AI segment, NVIDIA is working with leading firms to deliver faster and expanded capabilities to end-users. Today, NVIDIA partnered with Anthropic to deliver Claude models on Microsoft Azure.
With the general availability of Anthropic's Claude models, Microsoft Azure provides billing, authentication, and governance controls. The two models that are available today are Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4. Anthropic states that it will continue to deploy and expand on Azure.
Press Release: With Claude in Foundry running on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking, enterprises can now build and run more powerful agentic systems, including autonomous and specialized sub-agents that can work across business domains to perform advanced tasks.
A Growing Partnership
NVIDIA is working with Anthropic to extend developer capabilities by integrating NVIDIA tools into the Anthropic stack. That integration enables enterprises to give Claude agents domain-specific abilities. Through NVIDIA-verified agent skills, enabled by access to NVIDIA accelerated computing, enterprises can embed AI agents deeply into their business and use them as the operating system for the organization.
Enterprises can run Claude agents on Azure by using the NVIDIA Secure Agent Workspace Reference Design. It provides a blueprint for running autonomous agents in a governed environment where identity, network access, credentials, and runtime policy are controlled at the infrastructure level.
Claude in Microsoft Foundry, accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 GPUs on Azure, builds on the strategic partnership Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced in November to expand enterprise access to Claude and offer Anthropic models on NVIDIA accelerated computing.
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