Anthropic is opening a S’pore office in Oct & it’s hiring a range of roles

It is hiring across finance, sales, applied AI, marketing and research

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic will open an office in Singapore in Oct—its fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, The Business Times reported. This adds to the company’s offices in Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul and Sydney.

The move comes as Singapore establishes itself as a “standout market” for Claude, with strong enterprise demand for its advanced large language models and AI assistants, Anthropic said in a statement on Wednesday (Sep 16).

According to Anthropic’s most recent Economic Index, Singapore ranks second among 121 countries in Claude.ai usage relative to population. Usage in the country is 5.81 times higher than would be expected based on its population size.

Chris Ciauri, Anthropic’s managing director of international, said opening an office in Singapore is a “natural next step.”

“A presence here means we can hire the people who know this market best, and work side by side with local customers and partners building with Claude.”

Anthropic plans to work with organisations of every size in Singapore, ranging from start-ups and digital natives to large enterprises and the public sector. It added that demand has been particularly strong in regulated sectors such as financial services and government.

To lead regional commercial operations, the company appointed Dale Finlay as general manager of ASEAN, who will be based in Singapore. Finlay previously spent nearly a decade at Google Cloud in go-to-market leadership roles spanning enterprise, financial services and AI portfolios across APAC.

To support the new entity, Anthropic has begun local hiring across several operational functions, with nine open roles currently listed on its website spanning finance, sales, applied AI, marketing and economic research.

The company has yet to confirm the location of its new office.

Ahead of the announcement, The Business Times reported in Aug that Anthropic had leased about 100 desks within The Executive Centre facility at Ocean Financial Centre in Collyer Quay.

The GIC-backed firm’s expansion into Singapore follows similar moves by rivals such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

In May, OpenAI announced it would open its first Applied AI Lab outside the US in Singapore and hire more than 200 specialised AI professionals over the next few years, as part of a S$300 million investment in the Republic.

By Aug, it was reportedly in talks to lease about 100,000 square feet of office space at the new Shaw Tower on Beach Road.

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