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Anthropic Claude Models Now Generally Available on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Azure
Anthropic's Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, giving Azure-native enterprises a powerful new option for building autonomous AI agents.
NVIDIA has announced that Anthropic's Claude models in Microsoft Foundry are now generally available. The models are hosted on Microsoft Azure and run on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, providing Azure-native enterprises with a powerful new way to build autonomous and domain-specific AI agents.
As agentic AI continues to drive enterprise innovation and becomes more autonomous, organizations need access to cutting-edge computing resources. The NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPU represents the latest generation of accelerated computing, offering substantial performance for both inference and training of frontier large language models like Claude.
This integration brings together NVIDIA's hardware leadership, Anthropic's model capabilities, and Microsoft Azure's cloud ecosystem. Azure enterprise customers can now directly access Claude models through Microsoft Foundry and leverage Blackwell Ultra GPU acceleration for production-grade AI agent applications.
The announcement, published on NVIDIA's official blog, marks a new phase in the three-way collaboration between Anthropic, NVIDIA, and Microsoft, further accelerating enterprise AI agent adoption and deployment at scale.
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Why it matters
Enterprises can now deploy Claude models on Blackwell Ultra GPUs directly through Azure, significantly lowering the barrier to building high-performance AI agents in production environments.