Anthropic PBC is aiming to triple its workforce outside the U.S. to support global expansion, according to a CNBC report today.
This hiring surge follows shortly after the AI developer closed its latest funding round. Anthropic raised $13 billion from investors including ICONIQ, Fidelity Management, and Lightspeed, achieving a valuation of $18.3 billion—up from $6.15 billion just six months earlier.
Over 100 new hires will join Anthropic’s offices in Dublin, London, and Zurich, with the latter focusing on advancing the company’s AI research initiatives. The company also intends to extend its presence across Northern and Southern Europe, Germany, and Austria.
Meanwhile, rival OpenAI reportedly operates six European offices, including a newly established one in Munich last month—up from five as of December last year.
In Asia, Anthropic will open its first office in Tokyo as part of its global recruitment drive, gradually scaling up staffing levels over the next year. The Tokyo office will be led by Hidetoshi Tojo, a former executive from Google LLC and Microsoft, who recently joined Anthropic as Country Director for Japan.
CNBC also reports that Anthropic plans to hire country managers in India, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Singapore. Details remain unclear on what functions these offices will support and how many employees will be based there.
The company has announced that its international expansion will be overseen by newly appointed Executive Vice President for International Operations, Chris Ciauri. Previously CEO of VC-backed employee experience platform Unily Inc., Ciauri brings experience from earlier roles in market development at Salesforce Inc. and Google.
Anthropic also revealed plans to grow its applied AI team fivefold by year-end, helping clients deploy large-scale versions of Claude, its flagship AI model series. The firm claims that the most advanced model in the series, Claude Opus 4.1, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4 in certain coding tasks.
OpenAI continues to grow internationally as well, recently launching ChatGPT Go—a budget-tier subscription priced at approximately $4.50 per month—in India, and expanding it to Indonesia this week with plans for further global rollouts.
Anthropic may follow a similar strategy with its growth plans, potentially offering localized versions of its Claude chatbot service tailored to specific markets. The company already offers a specialized version—Claude Finance—providing access to financial data from third-party providers.
OpenAI's global expansion goes beyond ChatGPT Go. In May, it launched OpenAI for Countries, a program assisting governments in building local AI data centers and customized ChatGPT versions. Under this initiative, agreements have been signed for the development of multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure.
