Nvidia, Microsoft back Anthropic in a $45 billion bid for AI scale

Three tech giants just tightened the AI race by tightening their grip on each other. Nvidia, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced Tuesday that they’ve formed a three-way partnership that ties together Nvidia’s next-gen chips and systems, Azure’s data-center infrastructure, and Anthropic's Claude models, creating a loop that locks billions in spending — and influence — across all three. Anthropic has committed roughly $30 billion to purchase compute on Azure’s platform, a number large enough to secure 1 giga ...