Anthropic plans to triple its international workforce and expand its applied artificial intelligence team fivefold this year, responding to rising demand for its Claude models beyond the United States, according to statements published on Friday.

The company said nearly 80 per cent of consumer activity for Claude now originates outside the US, with per-capita adoption in South Korea, Australia and Singapore outpacing American usage.

Anthropic, valued at $183 billion and backed by Alphabet and Amazon, has grown its global business customer base from under 1,000 to more than 300,000 in two years, while run-rate revenue rose from about $1 billion at the start of 2025 to more than $5 billion by August, the company said. As part of its expansion, it will add more than 100 roles across Dublin and London, deepen research operations in Zurich, and open its first Asia office in Tokyo, with further European locations to be announced.

Leadership changes accompany the hiring drive. Chris Ciauri has joined as managing director of international, working alongside head of EMEA Guillaume Princen, head of Japan Hidetoshi Tojo and head of Americas Kate Jensen. Ciauri previously held senior roles at Google Cloud and Salesforce and was chief executive officer of Unily (Anthropic (url://18)). Paul Smith, recently appointed chief commercial officer, said enterprise customers are engaging at scale, despite limited prior on-the-ground presence. “What is amazing is we haven’t, up until recently, had significant human presence in Europe, in Japan, in our international markets, and yet we already have a very, very significant business over there,” Smith told CNBC.

Ciauri underscored the breadth of demand: “The global demand for Claude is extraordinary—from financial services in London to manufacturing in Tokyo, enterprises are trusting Claude to power their mission-critical operations,” he said (Reuters (url://9)). Anthropic highlighted case studies spanning sovereign wealth, pharmaceuticals and telecoms, and noted growing interest from governments and large systems integrators as companies embed AI into core workflows.

The push sets Anthropic against rivals expanding internationally. Microsoft has agreed a deal to integrate Claude into Copilot, while OpenAI is scaling global infrastructure and enterprise sales, and Google continues to embed AI across its cloud and productivity products.

Anthropic portrays its strategy as a pure-play enterprise AI approach focused on direct access to frontier models and industry-specific deployment, supported by expanded applied AI teams and investment in data sovereignty and 24/7 support.

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