Anthropic Launches Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry with 300K Token Context Window
Action Required
Azure customers can now utilize Anthropic's Claude models within their Foundry environment, enabling new use cases and integrations.
AI Impact Summary
Anthropic is expanding access to Claude models within Microsoft Foundry, specifically launching Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Haiku 4.5. This capability update introduces full Messages API support, Azure-specific authentication, and a new 300k token context window option for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, alongside several other enhancements like automatic caching and data residency controls. This expansion allows Azure customers to leverage Claude's advanced reasoning and agentic coding capabilities directly within their Foundry environment.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high