Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 Now Available on Azure AI Foundry
English summary
Anthropic announced on June 29 that Claude models are now generally available on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. Enterprise users can deploy and call Claude directly within Azure, using their existing identity, billing, and governance systems. The supported models are Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5, featuring prompt caching and extended thinking for coding, agentic workflows, and complex reasoning. Users can choose to run inference on Azure or on Anthropic-managed infrastructure. Anthropic and Microsoft plan to gradually align features and model availability across platforms.
Chinese summary
Anthropic于6月29日宣布，Claude模型即日起在Microsoft Azure AI Foundry全面可用。企业用户可直接在Azure环境中部署和调用Claude Opus 4.8和Claude Haiku 4.5，沿用现有Azure身份认证、计费及治理体系。这些模型支持提示缓存和扩展思考，可用于编程、智能代理和复杂推理场景。用户可选择在Azure或Anthropic托管环境中运行推理，未来双方将逐步实现功能和模型的一致性。
Key points
Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.
Anthropic的Claude模型现已在Microsoft Azure AI Foundry全面可用。
Supported models initially are Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5, with prompt caching and extended thinking.
首批支持的模型为Claude Opus 4.8和Claude Haiku 4.5，具备提示缓存和扩展思考功能。
Enterprise users can deploy within Azure and leverage existing Azure identity, billing, and governance systems.
企业用户可在Azure中部署并沿用现有的Azure身份认证、计费和治理体系。
Inference can run on either Azure or Anthropic-managed infrastructure.
推理可选择在Azure或Anthropic托管基础设施上运行。
Anthropic and Microsoft plan to gradually achieve feature and model consistency across environments.
双方计划逐步实现跨环境的功能和模型一致性。