Anthropic Launches Claude on Microsoft Foundry with Opus 4.7
Action Required
Businesses now have access to Anthropic's Claude models through Microsoft Foundry, enabling integration with Azure services and potentially driving increased adoption of AI-powered applications.
AI Impact Summary
Anthropic has expanded the availability of Claude models to Microsoft Foundry, offering access via Azure billing and OAuth authentication. This includes Claude Opus 4.7 with enhanced reasoning capabilities and a new pricing tier ($5 / $25 per MTok), alongside Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Haiku 4.5. Key updates include a 300k-token context window, automatic caching, and support for the new effort parameter for controlling thinking depth, marking a significant expansion of Claude's capabilities and accessibility.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high