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NVIDIA Blackwell

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Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, putting a frontier model on Blackwell Ultra as a managed Azure option.

Earlier contextThe story so far

In mid-June, NVIDIA reported a Blackwell sweep of MLPerf Training 6.0. Attention then moved from training to inference, where DFlash speculative decoding was reported to lift throughput up to 15x on Blackwell.

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Jun 16Jun 29 · now
TRAINING · Jun 16
Blackwell sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0
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INFERENCE · Jun 23
DFlash speculative decoding reported up to 15x faster inference on Blackwell
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NOW · Jun 29
Claude goes GA on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra in Microsoft Foundry on Azure
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What to watch — open questions

  • Is the 15x speculative-decoding figure reproduced by independent third parties, or is it primarily NVIDIA-published?
  • Will GB300 Blackwell Ultra hosting for Claude expand beyond Azure/Microsoft Foundry to other clouds?
  • How do real agentic workloads price out on Blackwell Ultra versus prior-generation GPUs?
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