Microsoft partners with Anthropic and Nvidia in cloud infrastructure deal

The joint announcement came from chief executives Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Jensen Huang of Nvidia (PA)

Microsoft has said it is partnering with artificial intelligence company Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia as part of a cloud infrastructure deal that moves the software giant further away from its longtime alliance with OpenAI.

Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, said it is committed to buying 30 billion dollars (£22.7 billion) of computing capacity from Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform.