Anthropic said it plans to triple its international workforce and expand its applied artificial intelligence team by fivefold this year to meet a surge in demand for its Claude AI models outside the United States.

Nearly 80 percent of consumer usage for Claude comes from outside the United States, with per-person usage in countries like South Korea, Australia and Singapore outpacing that of America, the company said.

Anthropic, valued at US$183 billion (A$280 billion) and backed by Google-parent Alphabet and Amazon.com, has distinguished itself, in part, by building AI models that excel at coding.

Its Claude large language models are widely regarded as one of the most powerful frontier models on the market, and this has helped grow the company's global business customer base from under

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