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Anthropic Opens Tokyo Office, Signs AI Safety MoC with Japan AI Safety Institute
Anthropic has officially opened its first Asia-Pacific office in Tokyo, with CEO Dario Amodei meeting Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi and signing a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Japan AI Safety Institute to collaborate on AI evaluation methodologies. The company also joined the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group and hosted a Builder Summit for 150+ startups. Japanese enterprise deployments of Claude are highlighted across Rakuten, Nomura Research Institute, Panasonic, and Classmethod, with Anthropic reporting 10x run-rate revenue growth in Asia-Pacific over the past year. Expansion to Seoul and Bengaluru is planned for coming months.
Anthropic Names Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International, Announces Global Enterprise Expansion
Anthropic announced the appointment of Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International, alongside expanded global offices in Dublin, London, Zurich, and Tokyo. The company disclosed run-rate revenue growth from $87M at the start of 2024 to over $5B in August 2025, with enterprise customers growing from under 1,000 to over 300,000 in two years. The announcement includes deployment case studies from NBIM, the European Parliament, Novo Nordisk, SK Telecom, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Rakuten, United Airlines, and TELUS, illustrating broad international enterprise adoption of Claude.
Anthropic appoints Hidetoshi Tojo as Head of Japan and announces Tokyo office hiring plans
Anthropic has appointed Hidetoshi Tojo, formerly Japan Country Manager at Snowflake and a veteran of Google Cloud Japan and Microsoft, as its Head of Japan. The company plans to officially open its first Asia office in Tokyo in the coming months and expand local hiring. Existing Japanese enterprise customers include Rakuten, NRI, and Panasonic. The Japan HQ will support partnerships with businesses, policymakers, and platform partners including Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex.
Anthropic Introduces Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 with Leading Coding Benchmarks and Agent Capabilities
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, positioning Opus 4 as the world's best coding model with 72.5% on SWE-bench and 43.2% on Terminal-bench, and Sonnet 4 at 72.7% on SWE-bench. Both models are hybrid (near-instant + extended thinking), support extended thinking with tool use in beta, parallel tool execution, and improved memory via local file access. Alongside the models, Anthropic is launching Claude Code as generally available with GitHub Actions, VS Code, and JetBrains integrations, plus four new API capabilities: code execution tool, MCP connector, Files API, and one-hour prompt caching. Pricing is unchanged from prior Opus and Sonnet tiers ($15/$75 and $3/$15 per million tokens respectively), with availability on Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.