Anthropic PBC will triple its headcount outside the U.S. to support its international growth efforts, CNBC reported today.
The hiring push comes a few weeks after the artificial intelligence developer closed its most recent funding round. Anthropic raised $13 billion from ICONIQ, Fidelity Management, Lightspeed and other backers at a $183 billion valuation. It was worth $61.5 billion six months earlier.
More than 100 of the employees Anthropic plans to hire will join its offices in Dublin, London and Zurich. The latter facility is reportedly focused on supporting the company’s AI research efforts. Anthropic also plans to grow its presence in northern and southern Europe, Germany and Austria.
Rival OpenAI reportedly operated five offices in Europe as of last December. This past month, it established a sixth office in Munich.
Anthropic will open its first Asia office in Tokyo as part of the recruiting drive. It plans to steadily grow the hub’s workforce over the next year. The office will be led by Hidetoshi Tojo, a former Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. executive who joined Anthropic last month as its country lead for Japan.
CNBC reported that the company will also hire country managers for India, Australia and New Zealand, Korea and Singapore. It’s unknown what work Anthropic’s offices in those countries will support or how many employees they will employ.
The company did disclose that its overseas growth efforts will be led by Chris Ciauri, its newly appointed managing director of international. Ciauri was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Unily Inc., a venture-backed provider of employee experience management software. He earlier held go-to-market roles at Salesforce Inc. and Google.
Anthropic reportedly plans to grow its applied AI team fivefold by year’s end as part of the workforce expansion. The team helps the company’s customers set up large-scale deployments of Claude, its flagship AI model series. The company says that the most advanced algorithm in the lineup, Claude Opus 4.1, can outperform OpenAI’s o3 at certain coding tasks.
OpenAI is also growing its international presence. It recently launched ChatGPT Go, an entry-level ChatGPT subscription in India that costs about $4.50 per month. OpenAI brought the plan to Indonesia earlier this week and plans to make it available in additional markets over time.
It’s possible Anthropic will take a similar approach with its newly detailed growth initiative. The company could launch localized versions of its Claude chatbot service optimized for specific markets. Anthropic already offers one specialized edition of the service, the Financial Analysis Solution, that offers access to financial data from third-party providers.
OpenAI’s international growth strategy extends beyond ChatGPT Go. In May, it launched a program called OpenAI for Countries to help governments build local AI data centers and customized versions of ChatGPT. It has already inked deals to set up several gigawatts’ worth of AI infrastructure as part of the initiative.
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