Anthropic unveils overseas hiring push as rivalry with OpenAI goes global

International Expansion - Anthropic is making a major global push due to surging overseas enterprise demand [1] - Anthropic is opening its first Asia-Pacific outpost in Tokyo and new offices across Europe [2] - Anthropic is hiring country leads in India, South Korea, and Singapore [2] Growth Metrics - Anthropic's team of engineers embedded in-house with enterprise customers is expected to grow 5x this year [3] - Anthropic's global go-to-market team will triple in size [3] Strategic Focus - Anthropic is primarily focused on business customers, skipping the consumer market [5][6] - OpenAI committed $850 billion to new infrastructure, partly due to serving consumers through its chatbot [5] AI Deployment Challenges - An MIT study found that 95% of enterprise AI deployments fail [4] - Anthropic and OpenAI are betting on embedding locally hired teams to boost successful AI deployment [4]