Anthropic to Enter India with Bengaluru Office in the Coming Months
CEO and Co-founder Dario Amodei, who is currently visiting India to meet with government officials and enterprise partners, described the country as a natural fit for Anthropic’s mission.
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Anthropic, the AI research company behind Claude, is setting up operations in India with plans to open a new office in Bengaluru by early 2026, marking its second Asia Pacific hub after Tokyo. The move signals Anthropic’s growing global ambitions and underscores India’s rising influence in the global AI landscape.
CEO and Co-founder Dario Amodei, who is currently visiting India to meet with government officials and enterprise partners, described the country as a natural fit for Anthropic’s mission. “India is compelling because of the scale of its technical talent and the commitment from the Indian government to ensure the benefits of artificial intelligence reach all areas of society, not just concentrated pockets,” he said.
“There is deep alignment between the challenges India is tackling and our mission as a company, from deploying AI across diverse languages and contexts to building frameworks for responsible governance.”
The Bengaluru office will serve as a hub for AI-driven social impact initiatives in education, healthcare, and agriculture, while also fostering strategic partnerships with Indian enterprises, startups, and nonprofits. Anthropic aims to support India’s thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem as it builds the next generation of innovative, globally relevant companies.
According to Anthropic’s recent Economic Index Report, India ranks second in consumer usage of Claude, behind only the US. Much of this usage is concentrated in technical and programming tasks, including mobile UI development and web app debugging. Large Indian enterprises like CRED are already leveraging Claude for mission-critical coding work. With the rapid adoption of Claude Code, which saw a tenfold growth within three months of launch, Anthropic believes its tools could turbocharge India’s export-driven IT services sector.
Paul Smith, Anthropic’s Chief Commercial Officer, said, “Our expansion comes at a pivotal moment when Indian enterprises and startups are seeking AI models they can trust. They need systems that combine frontier performance with the safety and reliability required to support critical business operations at a massive scale. We see remarkable promise in India’s innovation ecosystem, the vibrant startup and developer communities alongside enterprises that impact millions globally.”
In parallel, Anthropic is investing heavily in expanding Claude’s Indic language capabilities. The company plans to enhance performance in Hindi and nearly a dozen regional languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu. These updates are aimed at broadening AI accessibility and strengthening adoption across India’s public and private sectors.
