Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic Announce Strategic Partnership

OpenAI, Anthropic, Block and major cloud providers are co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to steward open, interoperable standards for AI agents.

OpenAI→Anthropic→Block→Google→Microsoft→Amazon Web Services→Bloomberg→Cloudflare→Cisco→Agentic AI Foundation

Founding members created the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to fund and govern open standards like MCP, goose and AGENTS.md for interoperable agentic AI.

Anthropic→OpenAI→Block→Google→Microsoft→Amazon Web Services→Bloomberg→Cloudflare→Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

Microsoft pledged $23 billion in new AI investments, led by a $17.5 billion India program and a $5.4 billion Canada program to build data centers, hyperscale cloud and AI skills.

Microsoft→India (cloud and AI infrastructure projects)→Canada (cloud and AI infrastructure projects)

Accenture and Anthropic formed a new business group and training program around Claude to bring production-grade AI services to tens of thousands of Accenture staff and clients.

Accenture→Anthropic→Accenture clients across regulated and nonregulated industries

Accenture and Anthropic entered a multi‑year strategic partnership to co‑invest in a dedicated business group, training 30,000 Accenture staff on Claude and co‑developing AI solutions for regulated industries.

Accenture→Anthropic→Enterprise clients of Accenture and Anthropic