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Anthropic

Anthropic, the leading AI safety and research company behind the AI assistant Claude, has proudly established its new Zurich office as part of its global expansion. With this move, the company reinforces the Greater Zurich's reputation as world-leading hub for AI.

As a global center of excellence for AI research, Zurich is a natural home for Anthropic to grow its European presence.
Jared Kaplan
Jared Kaplan - Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

Under the leadership of Neil Houlsby, Anthropic is deepening its work on large language models and multimodal AI. Houlsby brings over a decade of experience in AI research, specializing in neural architectures, computer vision, and language models. Previously a Senior Staff Research Scientist and Manager at Google DeepMind, he played a key role in developing Vision Transformers, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and multimodal AI models.

 

It’s an incredibly exciting time for AI research globally, and Switzerland has long been a centre for super-smart people doing world-class research.
Neil Houlsby
Neil Houlsby - Anthropic, Head of Zurich Office

The new office builds on Switzerland’s strong research tradition and Greater Zurich's thriving AI scene, supported by top universities and global tech companies. Focused on core technical challenges in safe and responsible ML and AI, Anthropic is building a team to tackle some of the field’s most complex problems, further embedding itself in the region’s dynamic tech ecosystem.

 

 

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