Anthropic is expanding its European footprint with new offices in Paris and Munich, adding to its existing sites in London, Dublin and Zurich as it scales across the region.

Claude is positioned for professional, enterprise use rather than general consumer use, aligning with its business-oriented strategy.

The strategy emphasizes balancing rapid growth with ethical, safe, and interpretable AI, leveraging Europe’s push for sovereign AI amid U.S.-China tensions.

The EMEA region is the fastest-growing for Anthropic, with Claude already adopted by customers like BMW, Sanofi, N26 and Doctolib, driving a claimed ninefold run-rate revenue growth in the area (specific revenue not disclosed).

The expansion aims to triple Anthropic’s international headcount in 2025 as 80% of Claude usage currently comes from outside the United States, signaling strong global demand.

The company frames its mission as developing safe artificial intelligence for humanity’s benefit, underscoring a safety-focused philosophy.

The move aligns with Europe’s regulatory landscape, notably the EU AI Act, and includes engagement with policymakers to ensure safety-aligned AI meets European standards.

Anthropic, a San Francisco startup founded by former OpenAI researchers, positions itself as a safer, privacy- and security-focused alternative to its bigger competitor backed by Microsoft.

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Anthropic is valued at about $183 billion, backed by Alphabet and Amazon, and has forecast strong growth toward 2028, targeting up to $70 billion in annual revenue and $17 billion in cash flow, up from an estimated $5 billion this year.

Anthropic aims to promote Claude for enterprise use across finance, law and software development, focusing on business adoption rather than consumer applications.

Anthropic plans to hire across engineering, research and policy, aiming to fivefold its applied AI team in 2025 to support enterprise adoption of Claude.