Microsoft, NVIDIA & Anthropic announce partnerships

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> deal also includes multi-year spend commitment, Claude inside Foundry + Microsoft 365, deeper Nvidia-Anthropic co-design, etc.

> Anthropic's valuation now estimated to be ~$350B

> the only company to have it's models on all 3 major cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud & Azure)

> MS slowly reducing reliance on OpenAI despite 27% stake, while OpenAI also diversifying with $38B AWS contract (Amazon: Anthropic's primary $8B investor)

> big-tech AI slowly diversifying & completely cross-backing each other

> Anthropic now backed by 4 AI leaders: NVIDIA, Google, Amazon & MS

> 80% of enterprise revenue already from AWS, Google Cloud & MS Copilot, etc.; to expand with new cloud deployment

> on track to meet forecasted revenue of $20B - $26B in 2026

> also displaying high EQ & creative writing scores on benchmarks

> both OpenAI & now xAI making models warmer + emotionally intelligent - aimed at increasing usability

> reasoning & non-reasoning models #2 & #3 on LMArena (former was #1 until Gemini 3 release)

> preferred by users 64.78% of the time over prev. models

> Claude models show least political bias on avg, as per training ideology

> followed by Grok 4 & Gemini

> "paired prompts" evaluation used: 2 prompts with opposing stances on same topic, across thousands of questions, then graded on the three tests

> 1,350 prompt pairs across 150 topics graded by AI

> full evaluation framework also open-sourced for verifiability