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Anthropic, the AI powerhouse behind the Claude model, is ramping up its European presence with forthcoming offices in Paris and Munich. This move builds on a wave of international expansions, including recent setups in Tokyo, Seoul, and Bengaluru, while bolstering existing outposts in London, Dublin, and Zurich. The additions underscore the company’s surging global footprint, particularly in Europe, where it has tripled its workforce over the last year and plans further hiring to fuel ongoing growth.
Europe’s business landscape is increasingly relying on Claude for mission-critical applications, propelling the EMEA region to become Anthropic’s quickest-expanding market. Annual recurring revenue there has surged more than ninefold in the past year, with major clients—those generating over $100,000 in annual run-rate revenue—multiplying by over ten times during the same period.
“Europe hosts some of the globe’s most innovative and visionary enterprises,” remarked Chris Ciauri, Anthropic’s Managing Director of International. “The executives I’m engaging with recognize the vast potential of AI advancement alongside the essential need for safety, dependability, and societal confidence. By assembling a larger, more diverse, and expertly tailored leadership group, we’re committing to long-term EMEA expansion and crafting the support our European clientele deserves.”
Insights from Anthropic’s Economic Index highlight how AI is transforming entrenched sectors continent-wide, from Germany’s industrial manufacturing and France’s hospitality industry to Sweden’s digital coding ecosystems. Tools like Claude are empowering giants such as L’Oréal, BMW, SAP, and Sanofi, as well as tech-forward firms including Lovable, N26, Pigment, Qonto, and Doctolib, to handle complex challenges like coding fresh software, refining applications, and troubleshooting network problems in fields demanding utmost precision.
Given their status as economic powerhouses, Germany and France make ideal spots for Anthropic to intensify its continental operations. Both nations rank in the global top 20 for per-capita Claude adoption and boast industry leaders in health care, finance, autos, aviation, and consumer goods. The Paris and Munich locations will act as central nodes for sales expansion, regulatory engagement, and alliance-building, with teams covering everything from AI research and development to marketing and logistics.
To drive this regional scale-up, Anthropic is assembling a top-tier executive roster attuned to the rising needs of Europe’s corporations and emerging ventures. Guillaume Princen steps in as Head of EMEA Startups, Mid-Market, and Digital Native Businesses, zeroing in on accelerating progress in these vital areas. Pip White takes the helm as Head of EMEA North, steering market strategies across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, the Nordics, and Israel from London; she draws on 25 years in enterprise tech from stints at Salesforce, Google, and Slack, where she sparked substantial regional advances. Thomas Remy, the new Head of EMEA South, will manage France, Italy, Iberia, the Middle East, and Africa out of Paris, using over a decade at Google Cloud—including leading the Data and AI go-to-market efforts—to shape strategies in a fast-evolving cloud niche. The company also plans to reveal a Head of DACH and CEE to guide operations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and beyond.
Kicking off activities in France and Germany, Anthropic is collaborating with local academia and arts groups. In Germany, it’s backing a prominent Berlin exhibition next year through Light Art Space, a Munich-based outfit that spotlights art-tech fusions by global creators. The firm is also sponsoring two hackathons via TUM.ai, a student-led program at the Technical University of Munich focused on software, AI, and machine learning training. In France, Anthropic is joining forces with Unaite, which fosters developer networks and AI literacy, to underwrite two 2026 hackathons.
With these developments, Anthropic now operates in 12 cities worldwide, spanning San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Washington, D.C. Those interested in joining, including opportunities in the new Paris and Munich sites, can explore openings at anthropic.com/careers.
