Austria calls on European Union to host Anthropic amid US restrictions on advanced AI access

Austria has proposed that the European Union should consider hosting Anthropic within the bloc’s borders in order to counter efforts by the United States to block foreigners from using the AI company’s most advanced models.

In a letter to EU Technology Commissioner Henna Virkkunen released by the Austrian government, Austria’s State Secretary for Digitalization Alexander Proell wrote it was important that Europe was not cut off from major innovations.