Bengaluru: Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, on Monday announced the opening of its India office and outlined plans to expand partnerships across enterprises, system modernisation projects, and production-grade software development in the country.
The new office will serve as a hub for India operations and talent hiring, with recruitment planned across a wide range of technical and business roles. The India operations will be led by Managing Director Irina Ghose, who will oversee partnerships, customer adoption, and applied AI initiatives.
Company officials said this is the firm’s second office in Asia after its Tokyo location, marking a deeper regional expansion strategy focused on responsible AI deployment.
Focus on enterprise and production AI use cases
According to the company, the India team will work closely with enterprise customers, digital-native firms and startups to design, build and scale solutions powered by its AI assistant platform, Claude.
The local unit will provide applied AI expertise to support real-world deployments, including software development workflows, system upgrades, and automation of complex technical tasks. The firm said Indian organisations are increasingly adopting AI tools not only for experimentation but for production environments.
In a statement, Irina Ghose said the company’s India revenue run-rate has doubled since it announced its expansion plans in October 2025. She added that adoption is spread across a diverse mix of large enterprises, digital-first companies and early-stage startups launching their first AI-backed products.
India emerging as key Claude market
The company said India has emerged as the second-largest market globally for Claude.ai usage, supported by a strong developer ecosystem and high technical adoption. A significant share of usage in India comes from computer science and mathematical workloads.
Nearly half of Claude usage in the country is linked to technically intensive tasks such as application development, code generation, system modernisation and shipping production software, according to the company’s internal data.
Officials noted that this pattern indicates deeper workflow integration rather than casual experimentation, suggesting maturing enterprise and developer adoption.
Investment in Indian language capability
Over the past six months, the company has expanded its language capabilities across India’s ten most widely spoken languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu.
It said these upgrades are aimed at making AI systems more accessible and useful across diverse user groups and regional business contexts. Improved Indic language performance is expected to support use cases in governance, agriculture, legal services, and citizen-facing digital platforms.
The firm emphasised that multilingual capability is central to responsible AI access in large and linguistically diverse markets.
Evaluation partnerships with Indian organisations
Anthropic also announced collaborations with Karva and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluation frameworks for AI performance on locally relevant tasks. These evaluations will test outputs across practical domains such as agriculture and law.
The initiative is being carried out with domain experts from Indian non-profits including Digital Green and Adalat AI. The goal is to create benchmark tests that reflect Indian use cases and social sector needs.
The company said insights from these evaluations will guide improvements in future AI models for Indic language speakers and India-specific applications. It also plans to make these evaluation frameworks publicly available so that other developers and researchers can use them.
Responsible AI push in India
Company leadership described India as one of the most promising environments for scaling responsible AI due to its deep technical talent pool, large-scale digital infrastructure, and track record of technology-led public service delivery.
Officials said the India office will not only drive commercial adoption but also contribute to safety, evaluation and governance-oriented AI work. With hiring set to accelerate, the new centre is expected to play a key role in the company’s global product and research ecosystem.
Conclusion
With a formal India base now established, Anthropic is positioning itself to deepen enterprise adoption, developer engagement and responsible AI research in one of the world’s fastest-growing technology markets. Expanded partnerships and local-language investments are likely to shape its next phase of growth in the country.