Claude does seem to be explicitly blocking people living in GDPR jurisdictions to sign up. I don’t know what to make of that, but this statement from the first paragraph rings false.
Well, there is two Claudes: first, there is claude.ai. Second, there is the Anthropic API. (And there is also AWS Bedrock, but it doesn’t offer Opus). Signing up for the Anthropic API from within the EU works without hassle.
The reason for the geo-block against the EU may also be rooted in the AI act, rather that GDPR. That would explain why the end-user service claude.ai is blocked off, and foundation model access remains available.
The reason for the geo-block against the EU may also be rooted in the AI act, rather that GDPR. That would explain why the end-user service claude.ai is blocked off, and foundation model access remains available.
To use Claude 3 through Gradio and/or HuggingFace, see https://huggingface.co/spaces/ndurner/claude_chat