Austria urges EU to consider hosting Anthropic
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.
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Austria has proposed that the EU consider hosting AI firm Anthropic within Europe.
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The move responds to US restrictions on access to advanced AI models.
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Austria argues Europe risks being cut off from key technological innovation.
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Officials say the EU should secure market access, legal certainty, and investment to attract major AI firms.
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The proposal reflects wider EU efforts to reduce reliance on US tech giants in AI and cloud infrastructure.
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.
"Let us jointly explore the strategic establishment and participation of Anthropic within the European Union. With legal certainty, market access, capital and a set of values that suits this company," Proell said in the letter.
He did not say how the step could be taken and acknowledged there would be scepticism about whether it was possible.
"The real question is not whether it is easy," Proell wrote. "The question is whether we Europeans are prepared to be the architects of our technological future, or whether we wish to remain mere administrators of decisions made elsewhere."
Anthropic did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the Austrian proposal.
Earlier this month, the European Commission proposed laws to boost domestic cloud, AI and semiconductor industries and cut reliance on US. Big Tech, defying US government criticism of the bloc's crackdown on its industry.
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