Anthropic has leased an entire office building in Manhattan’s Hudson Square and plans to double its local workforce – the latest sign that tech giants are embracing the Big Apple as an artificial intelligence hub.
The company, known for its Claude chatbot, will occupy all 16 floors at 330 Hudson St. in Hudson Square. Anthropic said it plans to have more than 1,000 employees in New York City by the end of this year, up from less than 500 at the start of 2026.
The company added that it will begin moving into the office later this summer and has space in the facility for about 1,700 desks. New York already ranked as Anthropic’s second-largest office hub behind its headquarters in San Francisco.
“New York is one of the main hubs for how AI is being put to work, and Anthropic is in the middle of it as a technology partner to the financial institutions, media companies, and cultural organizations that help define the city,” Anthropic chief commercial officer Paul Smith said in a statement.
“Doubling our team here and deepening our long-term commitment to the city will allow us to sit closer to that work, and to the people driving it forward,” Smith added.
Gov. Kathy Hochul lauded Anthropic’s move, stating that it “demonstrates that New York City — with its unparalleled talent pool, vast industry diversity, and close proximity to the world’s largest academic and research institutions — remains the premier place for companies to do business.”
Anthropic’s NYC expansion comes on the heels of an eventful stretch for the firm and its CEO Dario Amodei.
The company just relaunched its cutting-edge Mythos and Fable AI models with the Trump administration’s approval.
The White House had targeted the models with export controls after executives including Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged safety concerns. Anthropic engaged in weeks of high-stakes negotiations with Trump administration officials in order to get the models back online with safeguards in place.
OpenAI, Anthropic’s chief rival in the AI race, has also put down extensive roots in New York, having leased 90,000 square feet of office space at the Puck Building in SoHo.
Last year, OpenAI boss Sam Altman talked up AI’s potential to jumpstart the city’s economy during a meeting with local business leaders.
OpenAI also put out an economic report in June 2025 stating that New York City could “become a global capital of the Intelligence Age, with artificial intelligence generating significant revenue, jobs and growth.”
“If the US economy were to grow just 1 percentage point faster every year, compounded over a decade, we’d be nearly $3 trillion richer – more than the annual GDP of New York State,” the report said at the time.