With the support of the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPU, Anthropic Claude achieves enterprise-level "plug and play" on Azure.

Artificial intelligence adds heavyweight cooperation to the track. Local time on Monday, AI unicorn Anthropic announced that its Claude series large language models are now officially available on the Microsoft Foundry platform and hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud services. This move demonstrates that the strategic cooperation between Anthropic and Microsoft has entered the implementation stage, further enriching the top AI model matrix under the Azure ecosystem. Azure native integration, first batch of two flagship models launched According to the official statement of Anthropic, the Claude model adopts Azure native architecture in Microsoft Foundry, and enterprise users can directly access the capabilities of Claude without changing their existing identity authentication, network configuration, and governance control systems. Anthropic emphasized in the statement, "Claude runs in your Azure environment and continues to use the team's familiar identity verification, billing, and governance control systems." This "plug-and-play" design significantly reduces the threshold for enterprises to adopt advanced AI, especially favored by highly regulated industries such as finance and healthcare. The first models to be opened are Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5, both of which provide services through the Messages API. Anthropic stated that these two models support advanced functions such as prompt caching and expanded thinking, and can efficiently handle enterprise-level scenarios such as code generation, intelligent agent workflows, and multi-step complex reasoning. It is worth noting that the Opus series is positioned for superior reasoning capability, while Haiku is known for its low latency and high cost-effectiveness, providing enterprises with flexible choices. NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs supported, multi-cloud strategy advances synchronously On the same day, chip giant NVIDIA announced that the Anthropic Claude model hosted on Microsoft Azure is currently running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs. This chip is NVIDIA's latest generation AI accelerator, with significant improvements in inference performance and energy efficiency compared to the previous generation, which can significantly reduce the deployment costs of the Claude model and optimize response times. The deep integration of computing power and model capabilities further consolidates Azure's position as the preferred cloud platform for AI. In addition to deepening cooperation with Microsoft, Anthropic also announced the launch of the Claude Application Gateway, which is compatible with Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud platforms. This means that enterprise users can flexibly choose between mainstream cloud service providers without worrying about the complexity of model calls. Anthropic's multi-cloud deployment strategy not only addresses concerns about vendor lock-in for enterprises but also opens up greater market share opportunities for itself. Intensified competition in AI cloud services, ecosystem cooperation becomes an important variable This comprehensive launch is another key milestone for Anthropic in commercialization landing after receiving multi-billion dollar investments from giants such as Microsoft and Amazon. Analysts point out that as large models shift from technical competition to application competition, the ability to deeply integrate with leading cloud vendors and provide low-threshold enterprise services will directly determine the market penetration rate of AI companies. By introducing Claude, Microsoft has not only enriched its own AI toolchain but also strengthened its cooperation with top model providers outside of OpenAI, reflecting its strategic approach of a "multi-model ecosystem". Looking ahead, with the scale deployment of Blackwell Ultra GPUs and the continuous iteration of Claude model capabilities, AI developers and enterprise customers on Azure are expected to receive more cost-effective and competitive intelligent services. Whether Anthropic can leverage this wave of cooperation to expand its base of enterprise customers will continue to be a focus of market attention.