{"id":15495,"date":"2026-04-17T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/15495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:00:47","slug":"anthropic-unveils-plans-for-major-london-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/15495\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic unveils plans for major London expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic said Thursday it&#8217;s expanding its presence in London with new office space for 800 people, days after rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/13\/openai-london-office-sam-altman-uk-stargate.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI unveiled plans<\/a> for its first permanent office in the U.K. capital. <\/p>\n<p>The maker of the Claude AI chatbot currently has more than 200 people based in London, the company said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;London is already one of our most important research and commercial hubs outside the US, and our expansion in the Knowledge Quarter gives us the room to grow into,&#8221; Pip White, Anthropic&#8217;s head of EMEA north, said in a statement.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK combines ambitious enterprises and institutions that understand what&#8217;s at stake with AI safety with an exceptional pool of AI talent \u2014 we want to be where all of that comes together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic&#8217;s new office space will be located in the Knowledge Quarter area of London, home to a slew of AI companies including OpenAI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> DeepMind, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a>, Synthesia and Wayve.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6bfd7b59-5e63-4a4d-ab55-7c2bd39b05a5?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> campaign to court Anthropic by U.K. officials, after the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/08\/anthropic-pentagon-court-ruling-supply-chain-risk.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spat with the U.S. Pentagon<\/a> over the use of its AI models.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic has been gaining momentum recently, releasing its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/11\/vibe-check-from-ai-industry-humanx-anthropic-is-talk-of-the-town.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">viral coding agent, Claude Code,<\/a> alongside its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/07\/anthropic-claude-mythos-ai-hackers-cyberattacks.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mythos AI model<\/a>, which excels at identifying weaknesses and security flaws within software.<\/p>\n<p>The company most recently raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation in February and has fielded VC offer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/04\/15\/anthropic-fields-vc-offers-to-invest-at-800-billion-valuation-reports.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invest at an $800 billion valuation<\/a>, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Its annual run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion, with more than 1,000 businesses each spending over $1 million annually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic said Thursday it&#8217;s expanding its presence in London with new office space for 800 people, days after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6078,4969,1498,27,6079,1426,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-15495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-alphabet-class-a","9":"tag-breaking-news-technology","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-meta-platforms-inc","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116417821629962327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}