Anthropic is establishing a new office in Milan, marking the company's sixth European location alongside London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich, and Munich. The Milan team will collaborate with Italian businesses and the local developer community to build and scale responsibly with Claude, while contributing to the broader AI conversation already taking place across Italian industry and public life.
The office opening comes shortly after the release of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical and the first papal teaching focused on artificial intelligence. Anthropic's co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at its presentation, where he discussed the ethical challenges posed by AI and urged a wider range of voices-including religious traditions, civil society, academia, and governments-to help shape a positive outcome for humanity.
Anthropic's advanced AI capabilities and strong commitment to safety have already earned the confidence of Italian enterprise. Under the leadership of Thomas Remy, Anthropic's Head of Southern Europe, the local team is already engaged with a broad range of Italian companies, including Generali Group and Unipol Group in finance, Angelini Pharma and Bracco Group in life sciences, Enel Group in energy, and Pirelli in automotive.
Anthropic has also entered into a partnership with JAKALA, one of Europe's leading data and AI firms, deploying Claude across more than 3,000 seats to free up approximately 70% of senior team time for higher-judgment client work. Italian startups and technology companies have been early adopters as well. Satispay, a financial super app with more than six million users, rolled out Claude across its engineering teams, compressing an 18-month roadmap into seven months and updating its core payment system ten times faster than originally planned. At Bending Spoons, one of Italy's largest technology companies, the majority of code changes are now co-authored with Claude Code.
Anthropic is additionally bringing Claude to Italy's leading designers. During Milan Design Week, the team partnered with Alcova Milano for a hands-on workshop aimed at creative professionals, showing how Claude integrates with tools used by industrial, furniture, and spatial designers to enhance their creative process.
Chris Ciauri, MD International at Anthropic, stated that the company is committed to supporting Italian enterprise, research, and culture through a safe AI transition. He noted that Italy has always embraced profound transformation, and expressed optimism about what frontier AI can accomplish for the country-from its largest industrial groups to its founders, universities, and cultural institutions.
Anthropic believes that the question of how AI reshapes work, design, knowledge, and human agency cannot and should not be answered by the technology sector alone. The company was founded on the conviction that such questions are among the most important of the current era. Achieving the right AI transition demands more voices, not fewer-from industry, civil society, and institutions that have reflected on human dignity long before AI existed. Anthropic's Milan team will support Italian companies, researchers, and builders in shaping how this technology is used, and will contribute to the broader conversation about how it should be developed.