SINGAPORE -Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic will open an office in South Korea, as it ramps up its Asia expansion, a top executive said on Thursday.

“Out of the top five (Anthropic) users globally, three are in Asia: Korea, Japan, and India,” Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith told Reuters in an interview.

He said that 25% of the overall usage of its AI coding tool, Claude Code, happens in Asia, with the most active user being in South Korea. The company said the number of Claude Code active weekly users in Korea had grown sixfold in the last four months.

The move comes on the heels of a large-scale global expansion by Anthropic to triple its international workforce to meet a rise in demand for its Claude AI large language models outside the United States.

“That growth is goi

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