We’re excited to announce that starting today, Claude is available across Europe without needing a VPN! Users in countries like France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary and more can now access Claude’s advanced language model directly.

For those unfamiliar, Claude is an AI assistant created by Anthropic to help with writing, analysis, coding, math, and more. With natural language understanding capabilities and a knowledge base current through August 2023, Claude can assist with all sorts of open-ended queries and tasks.

Some of Claude’s key features include:

Open-Domain Question Answering Claude has broad knowledge spanning science, history, current events, arts & culture, and more. You can ask Claude about virtually any topic for informative responses. For example:

Q: What were the major causes of the French Revolution?

A: The major causes of the French Revolution included widespread famine, high taxes, resentment towards the aristocracy and clergy’s privileges, the influence of Enlightenment ideas, and friction from an inefficient absolute monarchy under Louis XVI…

Writing Assistance Whether it’s essays, stories, scripts, or other prose, Claude excels at helping to brainstorm ideas, outline content, provide feedback, and even generate draft passages. Just describe your writing project.

Q: Can you help me write a short story incorporating the themes of hope, perseverance, and new beginnings?

A: Here’s a potential outline for a short story on those themes: …

Code Generation & Explanation Claude can generate code in dozens of programming languages, as well as explain coding concepts. Perfect for debugging issues or learning to code.

Q: Can you give me an example of a Python function to find the largest value in a list?

A: “`python def find_max(list): if not list: return None max_val = list[0] for val in list: if val > max_val: max_val = val return max_val

And many more capabilities for ideation, task planning, analysis, and more. We’re thrilled to make Claude’s advanced AI more widely available in Europe. Give it a try and let us know what you think!