The international expansion reflects the growing consumer base for the the start-up’s Claude models worldwide.
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up with a significant global presence, has announced plans for a major expansion that will triple its international workforce, as well as key appointments for senior leadership.
The company behind GenAI chatbot Claude, Anthropic has stated that it has grown its customer base from 1,000 business customers two years ago, to more than 300,000 today. Nearly 80pc of Claude consumers are located outside of the US, in countries such as South Korea, Australia and Singapore, with per-capita usage “outpacing that of America’s”.
The organisation shared in a statement, “Anthropic has the top market share in enterprise AI and our run-rate revenue has grown from $87m at the start of 2024 to over $5bn in August 2025, making us one of the fastest-growing technology companies in history.”
This is driving plans for major expansion, which includes more than 100 new roles in the Dublin and London locations announced earlier this year and there are also positions for professionals in the research-focused Zurich office. Plans for additional European offices will be announced in the coming months.
Anthropic is opening its first office in Asia, to be located in Tokyo, Japan this year.
The growth strategy will be overseen by the newly appointed managing director of international, Chris Ciauri, who recently served as the CEO of Unily, was president of EMEA at Google Cloud and was executive VP and general manager of EMEA at Salesforce.
Commenting on the news, Ciauri said, “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. This is a key moment for Anthropic to expand the infrastructure and partnerships needed to serve this growing international customer base.”
Anthropic is looking to recruit for several country leads in regions such as India, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore, with broader expansion planned for the UK, northern and southern Europe, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Last year, the organisation established its first EU-based office in Dublin and currently, there are a number of job opportunities open to qualified people in AI, research and engineering, product management, support and operations, sales and security.
Just last week, a US district judge preliminary approved Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement with a group of authors, in what has been described as the largest payout in the history of US copyright cases.
The work of the authors was found to have been downloaded by Anthropic from shadow libraries using pirated content, with more than 482,000 works included in the case currently. The company will be required to delete the original downloaded works as well as any copies. The AI start-up maintains that it did not use any of the illegally acquired books to train its commercial AI products.
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