On June 29, 2026, Anthropic announced that its Claude models have reached general availability (GA) on Microsoft Foundry (Azure). They run on the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform and use NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking.
Microsoft · Anthropic · NVIDIA
Claude Goes GA in Microsoft Foundry on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
Anthropic's Claude models reach production on Azure's Blackwell Ultra rack platform — built to lower per-token cost and speed inference for enterprise agentic AI, under unified governance alongside the OpenAI GPT family.
72
Blackwell Ultra GPUs per rack, acting as one giant GPU via NVLink
36
Grace CPUs paired in the same single rack
1M
token context window, supported by select Claude models
4,600+
GB300 NVL72 clusters already deployed at scale in production
Inside one GB300 NVL72 rack
Bandwidth and compute that drive long-running, multi-step agent inference
130 TB/s
NVLink bandwidth (within rack)
576 TB/s
GPU memory bandwidth (~20 TB HBM3e)
1,440 PFLOPS
FP4 peak compute
Columns scaled by relative magnitude within their own units · cross-rack links run at 800 Gb/s per GPU over Quantum-X800 InfiniBand
From preview to production
NOV 2025
3-way partnership expands — Claude in preview within Foundry
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NOW · GA
Claude in production on GB300 NVL72 in Azure
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ECOSYSTEM
Connects to GitHub Copilot & Microsoft 365 Copilot
Catalog: Claude Opus 4.8 / 4.7 / 4.6 / 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 and Fable 5 — offered as Global Standard deployments via Anthropic SDK or HTTP, billed through Microsoft Marketplace under an Azure subscription.
What developers like
Easier to slot Claude into agent workflows
Multi-agent builds via Microsoft Agent Framework + Claude Agent SDK
Coding & enterprise-agent power under unified governance
Room to mature
Requests to add Foundry support to existing connectors
GA is recent — large-scale user evaluation still to accumulate
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