Anthropic to buy $30 billion in Azure capacity in new deal with Microsoft, Nvidia

Core Insights - Microsoft is forming new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic to reduce its reliance on OpenAI [1] Group 1: Investment Details - Microsoft will invest $5 billion into Anthropic, while Nvidia will invest $10 billion into the startup [2] - Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity from Microsoft and has contracted for additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt [2] Group 2: Industry Reactions - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed excitement about the partnership, stating it is a significant opportunity to collaborate with Anthropic to accelerate their AI model, Claude [3]