The United Kingdom is trying to attract Anthropic to expand its presence in the country as it seeks to capitalize on a fight between the maker of artificial intelligence app Claude and the United States Department of Defense, the Financial Times said on Sunday.
The British government’s proposals for Anthropic range from a office expansion in London to a dual listing of shares, the newspaper reported, citing people with knowledge of the plans.
Anthropic and the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office has supported the department’s work, which will be presented to Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei on his visit at the end of May, the FT said.
The U.S. government blacklisted Anthropic, designating the company as a risk to the national security supply chain after it refused to allow the military to use AI chatbot Claude for U.S. surveillance or autonomous weapons.
A US judge has temporarily blocked blacklisting, and the AI startup has a second lawsuit pending over its supply chain risk designation.
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