Anthropic announced on Friday that it plans to triple its international workforce and add to its applied artificial intelligence (AI) team by fivefold this year to meet a surge in demand for its Claude AI models outside the US.
Anthropic plans to hire for more than 100 new positions for operations in Dublin, London and Zurich.
It also plans to open its first Asian office in Tokyo.
The company noted that about 80% of Claude AI consumer usage occurs outside the US, led by countries such as South Korea, Australia, and Singapore.
Anthropic, which is backed by Alphabet and Amazon, has grown its global business customer base from under 1,000 to more than 300,000 in two years, Reuters reported.
This has helped increase the company's revenue run-rate to more than $5 billion as of August, from about $1 billion at the beginning of the year.
Earlier in the week, Microsoft inked a deal with Anthropic to integrate Claude models into its Copilot generative AI chatbot assistant.
Anthropic, which was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, recently announced $13 billion in new funding, which would value the company at about $170 billion.