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Can anyone explain, why it isn't available in Europe (not just the mobile app, but Claude AI in general).

Not complaining, just curious.

https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries

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Still annoying that the app is not available globally, just prevent the creation of accounts by checking the location? Moved abroad where Claude is available, but still have an EU App Store account because you can't easily switch countries with existing subscriptions, especially music.

I have a claude account, but I can't download the ios app because I am in EU, such a bummer.

You can use Poe.com, so your data is sucked-in by Quora, and then by Claude. But at least it's allowed in Europe.

I am more curious what their reasoning is than in their service. It's not that their were not enough equally good or better alternatives.

It’s available via API.

... for B2B customers.

Very likely the GDPR

GDPR applies to all companies. Not a good reason for Claude being absent specifically.

Google Gemini and Meta AI are also not available in the EU.

The only "proprietary" (as in you can't run them locally) models that are available in the EU are the models from OpenAI and Mistral.

So only 2/5 major (did I miss anyone) 'AI companies' make their services available in the EU.

Gemini is available in the EU, at least in Germany. I can use Lama via llama3.replicate.dev, and Claude via chat.lmsys,org

Ah seems like Google finally allowed EU countries, the last time I looked (few weeks ago) they still didn't allow it.

My point still stands for Meta and Claude, as I'm talking about the hosted products and APIs. e.g. https://meta.ai and https://claude.ai

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