Anthropic's European boss reveals the company's staggering figures

Faced with ChatGPT's 900 million weekly users, Anthropic is not yet the most well-known company among the general public in France, even though its assistant Claude is gaining popularity every day.

And yet, behind this discretion lies a spectacular rise. Guillaume Princen, Anthropic's European operations director, recently spoke on the company's Comptoir IA podcast, sharing data and insights that deserve attention…

Claude Code, the most profitable product in tech history?

The most striking revelation from this interview concerns Claude Code, the AI-assisted development tool that Anthropic launched less than a year ago, and which has even impressed within Google.

Starting with purely internal use, this product reached one billion dollars in revenue in less than six months, and today, One year after its launch, it would reach $2.5 billion.

Revenue increased tenfold

At the company level, Anthropic's overall ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) reached $19 billion in March 2026, compared to $9 billion at the end of 2025, representing a tenfold increase in revenue each year since its inception.

These figures are accompanied by a particularly symbolic admission: at Anthropic, 90% of the code is now generated by Claude Code. And, even better, Claude Code itself was written by… Claude Code.

A self-improvement loop that concretely illustrates how far AI can be integrated into technological production processes, without eliminating human developers…

No advertising, and no military agreement: rare positions in tech

Beyond the numbers, Guillaume Princen defended two positions that distinguish Anthropic from its competitors.

As already announced last February, no advertising will ever be integrated into Claude. For the company's European head, the argument put forward is ethical, because conversations with AI are sometimes too intimate and personal to offer responses influenced by commercial interests. The second position concerns the Pentagon, where Anthropic refused to sign an agreement for the use of its models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, unlike OpenAI. Finally, at the European level, the company affirms its commitment to local presence with four offices in London, Paris, Munich, and Dublin, and teams covering research, engineering, and business development. For Guillaume Princen, Europe must be "at the forefront" of capitalizing on this technological revolution and fostering the emergence of its own champions.