It's interesting that GPT is available in the EU, but Claude isn't. Both are by American companies (despite the French name), but OpenAI clearly has found ways of working within the EU regulations. Why is it more difficult for Anthropic?
Claude is named after Claude Shannon, founder of information theory. I guess it is a traditionally French name, but he wasn't a French person.
Given how fast this space is moving, it's understandable that these companies are opening it up in different countries as soon as they can.
That being said, Claude 3 is also not available in Brazil either (which coincidently has a data privacy law modelled after the GDPR).
The very first part of the answer to "How do you approach GDPR" is:
> "We approach data privacy and security holistically, [...]"
Which reads to me as a polite way to say: We don't want to be GDPR-compliant.