San Francisco, 22 May 2026 – Anthropic is reportedly in early discussions to use Microsoft’s in-house artificial intelligence chips, a move that could mark a major step in Microsoft’s effort to turn its custom silicon into a competitive alternative within the fast-growing AI infrastructure market.
The discussions centre on Anthropic potentially renting Azure servers powered by Microsoft’s Maia 200 AI chips. No final agreement has been reached, but the talks highlight the growing urgency among leading AI companies to secure more computing capacity as demand for model training, inference and enterprise AI services continues to expand.
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