AI startup Anthropic expands in Europe with offices in Paris, Munich

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. AI startup Anthropic said on Friday it ​was planning to expand its operations across Europe,‌ and open offices in the French capital Paris and Munich ‌in Germany.

The move comes on the heels of a large-scale global expansion by Anthropic to triple its international workforce to meet a rise in demand for its ⁠Claude AI large ‌language models outside the United States.

San Francisco-based Anthropic, last valued at $183 billion ‍and backed by Google-parent Alphabet and Amazon.com, was formed in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI ​employees.

It has offices in London, Dublin ‌and Zurich in Europe, and has tripled the number of employees in the region last year.

“EMEA has become our fastest-growing region, with a run-rate revenue that has grown more than 9 ⁠times in the past year,​” the company said ​in a statement.

Anthropic, which counts European companies such as L’Oréal, BMW, ‍SAP, ⁠Lovable and N26 as its clients, said its European workforce will span every aspect of its ⁠business, from research and engineering to sales and operations.

‌(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm;‌ Editing by Eileen Soreng)