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Anthropic to open a Milan office, lining the Italy push up behind a Vatican-led repositioning

EMEA is already Anthropic’s fastest-growing region, with run-rate revenue up roughly 9x and large-business accounts up 10x year-on-year.

The Milan office is the commercial operationalisation of an Italy strategy the company has been seeding politically through Rome.

Anthropic will open a Milan office to anchor its expanding Italian commercial footprint. The Milan launch extends a European push the company formalised six months ago with Paris and Munich openings, and adds Italy as the latest national market in a region that has become the AI lab’s fastest-growing geography.

On the demand-side numbers, Anthropic has framed EMEA inside its own materials as the fastest-growing region in the company.

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