Anthropic engineering is in London and the US. The other offices in Europe are sales oriented
replyZurich is also Engineering (any many staff in Zurich and London will be from other countries temporarily working there).
replyWhich makes it even more difficult to limit access to Americans. Deepmind was originally a British company and has R & D in multiple countries to it will be even more awkward with them.
replyI have always thought the UK was too liberal in allowing foreign takeovers of key businesses. Arm and Deepmind are great examples of why.
Deepmind I can undertand, as it was early days and no guarantee of success? and they needed massive investment. But the decision to allow Arm to be sold was surprising.
replyBut UK sells nearly everything - we need ongoing foreign investment.
Do they put offices in only non-EU European countries purpose?
replyAppears Switzerland as the lead guy there has lived in Switzerland for 10 years prior and probably refused to move (and he was previously at deep mind who also have researchers there so established talent pool)
replyhttps://www.greaterzuricharea.com/en/success-stories/anthrop...
London as the UK rolled out the carpet inviting them, plus deepmind created a talent pool and centre