Say hello to @ClaudeAI in Azure 👋 Starting today, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 models are available in Microsoft Foundry.

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Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Opus 4.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry. Microsoft Foundry offers the widest selection of advanced and frontier AI models of any cloud.

At Microsoft Ignite, we met with Kraft Heinz on Frontier Street to explore how they’re building the future of manufacturing with Microsoft Azure, your intelligent cloud.

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Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is now in Microsoft Foundry. Building on our expanded partnership with Anthropic, Opus 4.5 raises the bar for coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise productivity, giving you seamless access to the full family of Claude models on

Frontier Street at #MSIgnite lit up the floor with showcases of real-world innovation at storefronts by the Premier League, Kraft Heinz, Levi’s, and a hardware museum displaying the next wave of infrastructure.

We ran into Arun Ulag at Ignite and he revealed his top 3 announcements for Microsoft Databases and Fabric.

“Pulling together five teams for this activation was nothing short of incredible.” At #MSIgnite, Frontier Street featured the Azure ND GB300 v6 AI server blade with Blackwell Ultra GPUs straight from the Fairwater Data Center.

We caught up with Yina Arenas at #MSIgnite to hear how Microsoft Foundry is transforming the dev experience. Models, agents, tools, observability… 💨 Try to keep up!

📣 New for the agentic cloud: Azure Copilot—an immersive, full-screen command center powered by GPT-5 reasoning and a collection of agents to help you migrate, operate, and optimize your entire IT estate. Read the news: https://t.co/RphymkCFAh #MSIgnite #AzureCopilot

One of many reasons Azure’s high-performance infrastructure is the best for production AI systems: Azure ND GB300 v6 VMs are optimized for advanced reasoning and agentic efficiency at scale. Learn more: https://t.co/ogXhXrcvlm #MSIgnite #Azure #Nvidia

📣 Now together in Microsoft Fabric: The agility of Azure Cosmos DB and the precision of SQL database in Fabric. Bridge your data worlds to fuel the next generation of AI workloads. Learn more: https://t.co/QN4ZcrULVV #MSIgnite #MicrosoftFabric

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Claude Opus 4.1 Exceptional model for specialized reasoning tasks Ideal for advanced coding, long-horizon tasks and complex problem solving, AI agents, agentic search and research, content creation.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Smartest model for complex agents and coding Ideal for long-running agents, coding, cybersecurity, financial analysis, computer use, research.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Fastest, most cost-efficient Ideal for powering free tier user experiences, real-time experiences, coding sub-agents, financial sub-agents, research sub-agents, business tasks.

Meet Anthropic’s Claude models, now available in Microsoft Foundry.

📣 PostgreSQL developers: Meet Azure HorizonDB the new AI-ready database service with native AI capabilities built in. For enterprise scale, security, and performance without compromise. Learn more: https://t.co/R8StBOKvB0 #MSIgnite #PostgreSQL #Azure

Introducing Azure DocumentDB: A new multicloud, enterprise-ready NoSQL service—built on the open-source and MongoDB-compatible DocumentDB engine. Learn more: https://t.co/cjLYCuJ7vi #MSIgnite #Azure #OpenSource #NoSQL

Snowflake in OneLake? Yes, please. See how new Microsoft and Snowflake features simplify setup and unlock speed: https://t.co/ZDdCdI7sDb #MSIgnite