Anthropic announced the opening of a new office in Milan, marking its sixth European location alongside offices in London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich, and Munich. The expansion is designed to support Italian enterprises, researchers, and developers as they build and scale applications with Claude while promoting responsible AI adoption.
The Milan office arrives as discussions around artificial intelligence continue to gain momentum across Italy’s business, academic, and public sectors. The announcement follows the release of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical and the first papal teaching dedicated to artificial intelligence. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah participated in the encyclical’s presentation, where he discussed the ethical implications of AI and emphasized the importance of involving religious institutions, governments, academia, and civil society in shaping the technology’s future.
Anthropic said its advanced AI capabilities and commitment to safety have already attracted a growing base of Italian enterprise customers. Led by Thomas Remy, Head of Southern Europe, the company’s local team is working with organizations across multiple industries, including Generali Group and Unipol Group in financial services, Angelini Pharma and Bracco Group in life sciences, Enel Group in energy, and Pirelli in automotive.
The company has also partnered with JAKALA, a European data and AI company, to deploy Claude across more than 3,000 seats. Anthropic said the deployment is helping free up approximately 70% of senior team members’ time for higher-value client work.
Italian technology companies and startups have also adopted Claude. Satispay, a financial super app serving more than six million users, used Claude across its engineering teams and reportedly compressed an 18-month roadmap into seven months while accelerating updates to its core payment system. Meanwhile, at Bending Spoons, Anthropic said a majority of code changes are now co-authored using Claude Code.
Beyond enterprise adoption, Anthropic is engaging with Italy’s creative industries. During Milan Design Week, the company partnered with Alcova Milano to host workshops for designers, demonstrating how Claude can integrate with tools used by industrial, furniture, and spatial design professionals to support their creative workflows.
Anthropic said its Milan team will help support Italian businesses, researchers, entrepreneurs, and cultural institutions while contributing to broader conversations about the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.
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“We are here to support Italian enterprise, Italian research, and Italian culture through a safe AI transition. 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.”
Chris Ciauri, MD International, Anthropic
