Microsoft, in collaboration with Nvidia, has announced a significant strategic partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. The deal involves a combined investment of up to $15 billion, with Microsoft contributing up to $5 billion and Nvidia up to $10 billion. This move signals Microsoft's intent to broaden its AI investments beyond its well-established relationship with OpenAI. As a cornerstone of the agreement, Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion worth of cloud computing capacity from Microsoft's Azure platform. The partnership will also make Anthropic's Claude AI models available to Azure AI Foundry customers, marking a significant expansion of the AI tools offered on Microsoft's cloud. The collaboration underscores the intensifying competition for both AI models and the computing power required to run them.