Anthropic, the AI Research and Development Company behind the Frontier AI model Claude, has announced that it will expand its global operations to India and open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026.
In addition, Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is also in India this week to share the company’s commitment to developing responsible AI systems that drive social benefits and economic growth.
“India is compelling because of the breadth of its tech talent and the Indian government’s commitment to ensuring the benefits of artificial intelligence reach all areas of society, not just concentrated pockets,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic.
“There is a deep alignment between the challenges India is addressing and our mission as a company, from deploying AI in different languages and contexts, to building frameworks for responsible governance. India’s AI ecosystem will play a central role in how AI evolves globally and democratically, and we look forward to working with organizations in India to add a path to scale in a way that can be scaled.”
Anthropic will also hire an in-market team focused on building AI for unique local uses across the country. The company shared that Bengaluru was chosen for its talent density and proximity to India’s business ecosystem.
Bengaluru is Anthropic’s second office in the Indo-Pacific region, after Tokyo, Japan, and the company will continue to expand in the region with additional announcements planned later this year.
“Our expansion comes at a crucial time when Indian enterprises and startups are looking for AI models they can trust,” said Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer of Anthropic.
“They need systems that combine borderline performance with the security and reliability needed to support critical business operations at the massive scale they operate. We see remarkable promise in India’s innovation ecosystem – the vibrant startup and developer communities alongside Indian enterprises are building solutions that impact millions of lives worldwide.”
Anthropic has more than 300,000 enterprise customers worldwide and nearly 80 percent of consumer Claude usage now comes from outside US Indian companies, already leveraging Claude’s advanced capabilities in several use cases, including an emerging AI coding platform.
India also ranks second in Claude usage, behind only the US when compared to usage in other countries, a disproportionate amount of Claude usage in India is for engineering tasks and software development, such as mobile UI development and web app debugging, according to Anthropic’s recently released economic index.
Anthropic is investing heavily in advancing Claude’s Indic language capabilities.
Claude already offers support in major Indic languages, and anthropic plans to launch improved performance in Hindi for consumer interfaces.
The company is prioritizing model training in nearly a dozen additional languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu.
This deeper language localization will strengthen public sector adoption, education programs and enable broader access to AI across India.
In India, anthropic plans to leverage Claude’s analytics capabilities for locally led, data-driven public health initiatives and partner with education organizations to pilot AI-powered learning tools that could reach millions of students.
The company will also work with accelerators and social entrepreneurs to integrate AI into locally relevant solutions.
Published on October 8, 2025
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