American AI giant Anthropic aims to boost the European tech ecosystem as it expands on the continent, product chief Mike Krieger told AFP Thursday at the Vivatech trade fair in Paris.
The OpenAI competitor wants to be “the engine behind some of the largest startups of tomorrow… (and) many of them can and should come from Europe”, Krieger said.
Tech industry and political leaders have often lamented Europe’s failure to capitalise on its research and education strength to build heavyweight local companies – with many young founders instead leaving to…