Anthropic will continue to diversify its cloud infrastructure for its Claude workloads with an agreement to purchase $30 billion in Azure compute. In addition, Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic and Microsoft can invest up to $5 billion. Claude will also be available on Microsoft Foundry.
Speaking at the IFS Industrial X Unleashed conference in New York, Anthropic's Garvin Doyle, Applied AI Lead, said it's one thing to apply AI to industries like financial services and software development but another game entirely in real world settings.
Anthropic said it will invest $50 billion in building its own AI data centers in a partnership with Fluidstack. The first data centers will be built in New York and Texas with more sites on deck.
The race is on to put enterprise applications around large language models (LLMs) and the stakes couldn't be higher for the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic as well as other foundation model players.
Anthropic annual revenue run rate was $1 billion at the beginning of 2025 and now tops $5 billion. Anthropic, which is more enterprise focused than rival OpenAI, said it has more than 300,000 business customers.
Anthropic released a threat intelligence report that introduces "vibe hacking" and a bevy of other examples where criminals weaponized agentic AI.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI are betting that near freemium deals today will equate to profitable contracts with the US government in the future.
Anthropic is best known for its Claude large language model (LLM), but its enterprise software ambitions are clear as the company builds out its go-to-market team.
Your vendor is likely to tell you that there's an easy button for agentic AI, but Anthropic's post gives you some questions to ask about the architecture behind the marketing.
Anthropic launched a set of developer tools that make it easier to build AI agents and launched new Claude 4 models. The news, outlined at Anthropic's first developer conference, highlights how large language model companies are branching out.
Databricks inked a five-year partnership with Anthropic to offer Claude models directly through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Databricks also highlighted a system to enhance large language model performance without requiring label data.
