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Microsoft, Anthropic And Nvidia Forge $45B AI Cloud Partnership

Microsoft, Anthropic And Nvidia Forge $45B AI Cloud Partnership

Microsoft and Nvidia invest in Anthropic as an AI infrastructure deal secures $30B in Azure computing, reshaping cloud competition with OpenAI.

Microsoft has announced a major partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia, in a move that signals a shift in the software giant’s AI strategy away from its longtime reliance on OpenAI.

Under the agreement, Anthropic, creator of the Claude chatbot, will purchase $30 billion in computing capacity from Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion in the San Francisco-based company, while Microsoft will commit up to $5 billion. The announcements came ahead …