Anthropic said on June 29, 2026 that its top-tier Claude Opus 4.8 and the fast, low-cost Claude Haiku 4.5 are now generally available (GA) in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Azure. The models are accessible via the Messages API and support features such as prompt caching and thinking (adaptive thinking). A key point is that they plug into Azure-native authentication (Microsoft Entra ID or API keys), billing and commitment consumption, with inference running entirely on Azure infrastructure for stronger data residency. AnthropicMicrosoft
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