STOCKHOLM, Nov 7 (Reuters) - U.S. AI startup Anthropic

said on Friday it was planning to expand its operations across

Europe, and open offices in the French capital Paris and Munich

in Germany.

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.

San Francisco-based Anthropic, last valued at $183 billion

and backed by Google-parent Alphabet and Amazon.com ( AMZN )

, was formed in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI

employees.

It has offices in London, Dublin and Zurich in Europe, and

has tripled the number of employees in the region last year.

"EMEA has become our fastest-growing region, with a run-rate

revenue that has grown more than 9 times in the past year," the

company said in a statement.

Anthropic, which counts European companies such as L'Oréal,

BMW, SAP, Lovable and N26 as its clients, said its European

workforce will span every aspect of its business, from research

and engineering to sales and operations.