Anthropic wants to run Claude models on Microsoft’s Maia chip

Anthropic and Microsoft are in early talks to run Claude inference on Azure Maia 200 chips.

The discussions build on Microsoft’s existing investment in Anthropic and Azure spending commitments, plus Copilot integration.

If adopted, the move could shift some Anthropic workloads to Microsoft’s in-house AI silicon.

That would support broader cloud efforts to cut inference costs and reduce reliance on Nvidia.