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Anthropic added as major new frontier AI partner; NVIDIA securing capacity across AWS, Azure, CoreWeave, and other cloud providers
Jensen Huang· NVIDIA· AI· 2026-05-20· about Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, CoreWeave
“With the addition of Anthropic, to OpenAI, Gemini, StacyX xAI, Meta, MSL, Microsoft AI, TML, Reflection, Perplexity, Cursor, and other major frontier labs already building on NVIDIA. Our share of frontier AI models will grow significantly. We have partnered with them to secure computing capacity across Azure, AWS, CoreWeave.”
Why it matters
Anthropic partnership signals that NVIDIA has secured preferential access to a major frontier model company and is coordinating multi-cloud capacity deployments. This represents a pick-and-shovel opportunity for cloud infrastructure providers and data center operators.
Investment implication
CoreWeave (private AI-native cloud), AWS, and Microsoft are positioned to win incremental capex from Anthropic's expansion. CoreWeave in particular may see accelerated growth as NVIDIA-preferred infrastructure partner. This also signals reduced leverage for customers to negotiate GPU pricing.