Anthropic to triple international workforce in global AI push (www.cnbc.com)

Anthropic announced plans to triple its international workforce and grow its applied AI team fivefold in 2025 as it accelerates a global enterprise push. The company is recruiting country leads across India, Korea, Singapore, Australia/New Zealand and expanding across the UK, Europe and Japan, opening its first Asia office in Tokyo and adding 100+ roles in Dublin and London plus a research hub in Zurich. The move follows rapid commercial traction: Claude now serves more than 300,000 enterprise customers, nearly 80% of usage is outside the U.S., and Anthropic recently reached an estimated $5 billion revenue run‑rate. Claude Code — a developer/automation entry point — is already a $500M product with 10x usage growth in three months. Technically, the hiring surge underscores a shift from experimentation to domain-specific, production deployments requiring 24/7 support, data‑sovereignty infrastructure, and deep applied‑AI expertise. Anthropic emphasizes verticalized systems (life sciences, finance, telecom, government), integrations with cloud platforms (AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex) and partnerships with global systems integrators and niche consultancies to embed Claude at scale. Demonstrated impacts include compressed drug‑development reporting at Novo Nordisk, major productivity gains at Norges Bank Investment Management, and fraud reductions and customer‑service improvements at large carriers and banks — positioning Anthropic as a differentiated pure‑play alternative to cloud incumbents as enterprise AI matures.