Anthropic boss: ‘huge demand' for our AI models in the UK
Anthropic is seeing 'tremendous' growth in the UK market, the company's boss said, and it plans to create 100 roles in Europe, including London.
Guillaume Princen, Anthropic's new head of its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said that the artificial intelligence company was seeing 'huge demand' in the UK. 'We're seeing tremendous traction, demand and growth in the UK market. Companies like WPP are using us extensively,' Princen added.
The artificial intelligence start-up is introducing its next generation of models for Claude, its family of large language models.
The Claude Opus 4, its most powerful model yet, has the ability to work continuously for several hours and is, according to several benchmarks, the best coding model yet released by any AI start-up
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