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Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup founded by AmazonIt said on Monday it would launch its generative artificial intelligence assistant Claude in Europe on Tuesday. It can be used by individuals and businesses via the web and iPhone app.
A paid subscription version of Anthropic’s Claude Assistant, called Claude Pro, will be available to users who want access to all of its models, including Anthropic’s most advanced product, the Claude 3 Opus.
Anthropic also offers a business-focused Claude Team subscription plan, which costs €28 ($30) per month, excluding value-added tax (VAT).
“We designed Claude with a strong commitment to accuracy, security and privacy,” Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei said in a statement on Tuesday.
Artificial intelligence has been developing rapidly, and officials are worried about its impact on jobs and privacy.
The European Parliament earlier this year adopted the world’s first set of major regulatory ground rules to govern new technologies. Among other things, the Artificial Intelligence Bill aims to determine and apply rules based on the level of risk posed by artificial intelligence, classifying risk categories into low, medium, high and unacceptable.
Anthropic said its Claude assistant is fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and other European languages.
While Claude.ai is already available online and on mobile devices for free in the UK, Anthropic said this is the first time the product will be available to users in the EU and non-EU countries such as Norway, Switzerland and Iceland.
Anthropic has quickly become one of the buzziest and most hyped generative AI companies on the market, with investors valuing the company at a whopping $18.4 billion as of March. That month, Amazon announced a $2.75 billion investment in the startup, bringing its total investment in the company to date to $4 billion.
Amazon’s investment in Anthropic has raised concerns from some regulators, who worry it could undermine the company’s independence.
In the UK, regulators are assessing whether Amazon’s investment and partnership with Anthropic and Microsoft’s deal with a generative artificial intelligence company may constitute effective mergers that reduce competition.
Amazon said its partnership with Anthropic constitutes a limited corporate investment and not a merger. Microsoft denies deals with artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Mistral, and that hiring from Inflection amounts to a merger.
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