Anthropic, the parent of Claude AI, is going big on international expansion after seeing huge demand from businesses around the 0 company, valued at $183 billion, went from having less than 1,000 business customers to over 300,000 in two 1 Friday, bosses said they’ll triple their international workforce and make their customer help team five times bigger in 2 move comes as most of their users are now based outside 3 80% of people using Claude live in other 4 like South Korea, Australia, and Singapore actually have more users per person than the US does. “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,” Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith said in an interview as reported by 5 Asian office opens in Tokyo with major European expansion planned Anthropic is looking for country bosses in India, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Singapore.
They’re also hiring across Britain, different parts of Europe, Germany, Austria and 6 company will open its first Asian office in Tokyo and add over 100 jobs in Dublin and London. A research center in Zurich is planned too, with more offices coming 7 Ciauri just joined as the person in charge of international 8 this, he ran a software company called Unily and worked at Google Cloud and 9 Salesforce, he helped grow their European, Middle Eastern, and African business from $200 million to over $3 billion. “G20 governments are approaching us about doing really, really interesting things at a citizen enablement level,” Ciauri 10 companies in Europe and Asia want to use Claude for specific industry needs 11 is happening while the AI rivalry in businesses heats 12 has hit $5 billion in yearly revenue, way up from $87 million at the start of 13 puts the company against the big 14 just announced an $850 billion infrastructure deal with Oracle, Nvidia, and 15 and Google keep adding AI stuff to their existing business tools, making it easy for companies to just add things like Copilot or Gemini without changing 16 corporations report dramatic efficiency Gains with Claude Anthropic is doing something 17 of adding AI to old software, they let businesses use Claude directly.
“There’s a very good reason why, if you’re an AWS customer, you should also consume Anthropic through Bedrock, and if you’re a great Google customer, through Vertex,” Smith 18 pointed out that most big companies use several AI providers instead of just 19 Results for Companies Businesses are seeing big wins with 20 Nordisk, the Danish drug company that makes Ozempic, used Claude to cut down a typical three-month analysis process to just a few days. Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund uses Claude to analyze billion-dollar investments. They’ve saved 213,000 hours of work, which is a 20% boost in productivity across 9,000 companies they invest 21 Telecom in Korea saw customer service quality jump 34% after rolling out Claude 22 European Parliament made millions of old documents searchable.
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank cut fraud losses in half. Moreover, as Cryptopolitan reported, business users can now select either OpenAI or Anthropic models when using Microsoft’s Copilot AI 23 Code, which launched in May, is already making $500 24 went up 10 times in three 25 other companies that make general tools, Anthropic builds custom stuff for specific industries like telecom, drug companies, banks, and government. Anthropic’s team that helps customers set up Claude will grow five times bigger next 26 people help businesses figure out how to use Claude for their specific 27 is also putting money into 24/7 support and systems that keep data secure, which matters a lot for regulated 28 thinks adapting to local languages and cultures is key to 29 mentioned how Panasonic uses Claude models that are customized for the Japanese language and 30 up to Bybit and start trading with $30,050 in welcome gifts
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