Anthropic pledges $30B in Azure compute as Claude moves into Copilot

What happened

How Claude ended up inside Copilot The rollout started on September 24, 2025. Microsoft's integration of Anthropic's Claude into Copilot diversifies AI options, impacting enterprise decision-making and compliance dynamics. Microsoft is a software and software development company based in Redmond, and its products and services include Azure. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code.

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Now its flagship AI assistant has a second brain on call, and that brain belongs to Anthropic . Microsoft has been weaving Anthropic’s Claude models into its Copilot ecosystem.

Users can now pick Claude for coding help, research and workflow management instead of defaulting to OpenAI. Copilot users gained the option to select Claude variants, including Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1, next to the existing OpenAI models.

Claude models became the default for many commercial customers. Its models remain available inside Copilot, so this is an expansion of the menu, not a replacement of the chef.

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