Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind Claude, has officially opened a new office in Bengaluru, marking its second major expansion in Asia following Tokyo. The move comes as the company identifies India as the second-largest market for its consumer-facing AI assistant, Claude.ai.
The expansion is accompanied by a series of partnerships across enterprise, education, and public sectors, aimed at deepening the company’s integration into India’s digital ecosystem. Irina Ghose, recently appointed as the Managing Director of India for Anthropic, will lead the new office, which plans to hire local talent across various roles to support regional operations.
High Technical Usage and Market Growth
According to Anthropic, nearly half of the usage of Claude in India is centered on computer and mathematical tasks, such as application building, system modernization, and shipping production software. The company reports that its run-rate revenue in India has doubled since it first announced its expansion plans in October 2025.
Focus on Indic Languages and Localization
Addressing a common disparity in AI model performance, Anthropic has launched initiatives to improve Claude’s fluency in non-English languages. Six months ago, the company began a focused effort to curate high-quality training data for ten widely spoken Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.
To further this goal, Anthropic is collaborating with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to create evaluations for locally relevant tasks in sectors like law and agriculture. These evaluations, developed with inputs from nonprofits such as Digital Green and Adalat AI, are intended to measure model performance in specific Indian contexts. Anthropic has stated it intends to make these evaluations publicly available.
Enterprise and Startup Adoption
The company highlighted several commercial partnerships and use cases among Indian businesses:
- Air India is utilizing Claude Code to accelerate custom software deployment and implement agentic AI in its operations.
- CRED reported a 2x increase in feature delivery speed and a 10% improvement in test coverage using Claude Code.
- Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees to aid in modernizing legacy systems and supporting client AI adoption.
- Swiggy has adopted the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—an open-source standard recently donated by Anthropic to the Linux Foundation—to allow users to order groceries and make reservations through Claude.
- Startups such as Razorpay, Enterpret, and Emergent were also cited as integrating Claude into their engineering workflows and customer-facing products.
Initiatives in Education and Public Sector
Anthropic reported that educational tasks comprise 12% of Claude.ai usage in India. In response, the company has partnered with the non-profit Pratham to pilot the “Anytime Testing Machine.”
This tool, currently used by 1,500 students across 20 schools, helps students practice for exams and is expected to expand to 100 schools by late 2026. Additionally, a collaboration with the Central Square Foundation will provide technical expertise and API credits to developers building AI-enabled educational tools.
In the public sector, partnerships include:
- The EkStep Foundation: Working to deploy AI in the agricultural sector via the OpenAgriNet effort.
- Adalat AI: Launching a national WhatsApp helpline to improve access to judicial services. The tool uses Claude to provide case updates, translation, and summarization for the millions of pending court cases in India.
- MoSPI: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, supported by Bharat Digital, has launched the first official government MCP server, allowing AI systems to query national statistics.
The new Bengaluru office will focus on supporting these diverse customer bases, with specific teams dedicated to offering applied AI expertise to enterprises and startups.
Regarding this, Irina Ghose, Managing Director of India, Anthropic, said:
India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises. Already, it’s home to extraordinary technical talent, digital infrastructure at scale, and a proven track record of using technology to improve people’s lives. That’s exactly the foundation you need to make sure this technology reaches the people who can benefit from it most.