Anthropic Accelerates European Deployment with Milan Hub and Key Enterprise Accounts

Anthropic is deepening its push into Europe, opening a new office in Milan on May 27, 2026. The new hub marks the AI company’s sixth European location in the last year, joining offices in London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich, and Munich. The rapid expansion comes as Europe becomes Anthropic’s fastest-growing market.

The company’s revenue in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) has grown ninefold over the past year, with the number of large enterprise customers growing tenfold in the same period. To keep up, Anthropic plans to triple its international staff. Its London hub alone is expected to grow from 200 to 800 employees. These moves are backed by serious financial momentum: as of April 2026, Anthropic hit a $30 billion annualized revenue run rate. That followed a Series G funding round in February 2026 that valued the company at a staggering $380 billion. CEO Dario Amodei noted that annualized revenue growth in the first quarter of 2026 was 80 times higher than in the first quarter of 2025.

Enterprise Integration and Performance Metrics in Italy

The Milan office, led by Head of Southern Europe Thomas Remy, is already working with some of Italy’s biggest companies. Current clients include financial services firms Generali Group and Unipol Group, life sciences companies Angelini Pharma and Bracco Group, energy giant Enel Group, and automotive manufacturer Pirelli.

Early results from Italian tech firms show significant productivity gains. Financial app Satispay used Claude models to condense an 18-month product roadmap into just seven months. It also updated its core payment system ten times faster than before. At software company Bending Spoons, a majority of code changes are now written with help from Claude Code. The AI is also being integrated into core business operations. Data and AI firm JAKALA rolled out Claude to over 3,000 employees, reporting that it has freed up roughly 70% of its senior team's time for more strategic client work.

Anthropic’s outreach in Italy also extends to the creative industry. The company partnered with Alcova Milano during Milan Design Week for a workshop on using Claude in design workflows.

Policy Engagement and Competitive Positioning

The timing of the Milan launch appears strategic. It comes just after the release of Magnifica Humanitas, the first papal encyclical on artificial intelligence from Pope Leo XIV. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was at the Vatican to speak on AI ethics for the encyclical’s presentation, and CEO Dario Amodei met with senior Italian government officials in Rome that same week. The high-level engagement reinforces the company’s public focus on AI safety and governance, a key selling point for enterprises navigating the EU AI Act.

The move also puts Anthropic on the ground in a key market where its main rival, OpenAI, does not currently have a dedicated office. According to market analysis from late 2025, Anthropic held about 40% of the enterprise large language model market, compared to OpenAI's 27%.

“We are here to support Italian enterprise, Italian research, and Italian culture through a safe AI transition,” said Chris Ciauri, Anthropic’s Managing Director of International. “Italy is a country that has always embraced profound transformation and we are optimistic about what frontier AI can do for this country, from its largest industrial groups to its founders, its universities, and its cultural institutions.”