Claude in Microsoft Foundry is the production path enterprises have been asking for: true frontier model choice, Azure-native controls, simplified procurement, and faster time to value.
Most enterprise AI projects do not stall because of model quality. They stall because of everything around the model: procurement, governance, networking, and data. Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available, hosted on Azure, giving teams a faster path from agent experimentation to production.
Enterprises can build with Claude through their existing Azure account, using the authentication, billing, networking, governance, and data controls their teams already trust. Instead of solving for infrastructure, teams can focus on building agentic applications that run their work with Claude, in the environment where they already operate.
This is a real step forward for customers building agentic applications and want to move from AI experimentation to production. Claude brings leading capabilities for coding, agentic workflows, and complex reasoning. Microsoft Foundry brings the enterprise harness to build, evaluate, deploy, and scale those agents on Azure. Together, they give teams a trusted path to production AI with frontier model quality and the Azure controls they already trust.
Today’s announcement builds on the strategic partnership Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced in November 2025 to expand enterprise access to Claude on NVIDIA accelerated computing. Claude runs on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems, connected by InfiniBand networking, bringing the rack-scale AI infrastructure designed for inference performance and efficiency.
