Anthropic announced on Thursday it would expand its presence in London with new office space for 800 people, days after rival OpenAI announced plans for its first permanent office in the British capital.
The maker of the Claude AI chatbot currently has more than 200 employees in London, the company said in a statement.
“London is already one of our most important research and commercial locations outside the US and the expansion of Knowledge Quarter will give us room to grow,” Pip White, Anthropic’s head of EMEA North, said in a statement.
“The UK combines a great pool of AI talent with ambitious companies and institutions who understand what’s at stake for AI safety, and we want to be where they all come together.”
Anthropic’s new office space will feature OpenAI, google deep mind, metaSynthesia and Wave.
The announcement comes after reports of a legal campaign by British officials against Anthropic following the company’s spat with the US Department of Defense over its use of AI models.
Anthropic has been gaining momentum recently, releasing Claude Code, a viral coding agent, alongside its Mythos AI model, which excels at identifying weaknesses and security flaws within software.
The company recently raised $30 billion at a valuation of $380 billion in February and has submitted a VC offer to invest at a valuation of $800 billion, according to reports.
Annual run-rate revenue exceeds $30 billion, with over 1,000 companies each spending over $1 million annually.
