Anthropic is opening a Milan office this month, its sixth European base in under a year, as EMEA becomes the company’s fastest-growing region with run-rate revenue up more than 9x year-on-year.
The move is not simply commercial: CEO Dario Amodei travelled to Rome for meetings with Italian officials the same week co-founder Christopher Olah appeared alongside Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican’s first major AI ethics encyclical.
Italy gives Anthropic access to a Southern European industrial economy, financial services, manufacturing, consumer goods, that OpenAI has not yet formally entered with a dedicated office.
Six months ago, Italy was not on Anthropic‘s named-office list. This week it is. The Claude maker will open a Milan office this month, adding Italy to a European footprint that already spans London, Dublin, Zurich, Paris, and Munich. The pace of expansion is itself the story and the numbers driving it make the logic clear.
EMEA run-rate revenue has grown more than 9x in the past year, and the number of large EMEA business accounts has grown more than 10x. No other geography in Anthropic’s go-to-market is moving at this speed. The company is planning to triple its international workforce to meet rising demand for its Claude AI models outside the United States —its London office alone employs around 200 staff, with plans to expand to 800. Anthropic is offering up to £630,000 per year for London engineers, a salary level already forcing European startups to reconsider their own compensation structures.
