Anthropic opens Bengaluru office as India becomes its second-largest market

Anthropic has opened a new office in Bengaluru as India emerges as the second-largest market for its AI assistant, Claude, underscoring the country’s growing importance in the global artificial intelligence race.

The San Francisco-based company said nearly half of Claude’s usage in India involves computer science and mathematical tasks, including application development, system modernisation and production software deployment. The local office marks Anthropic’s second base in Asia after Tokyo.

India’s run-rate revenue for Anthropic has doubled since October 2025, the company said, reflecting strong uptake across enterprises, startups and digital-native firms.

“India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises,” said Irina Ghose, Managing Director, India, Anthropic. She cited the country’s technical talent base, digital infrastructure and record of large-scale technology deployment as key drivers.

Enterprise and startup adoption

Anthropic announced partnerships spanning aviation, fintech, IT services and startups.

Air India is using Claude Code to accelerate custom software development as part of its broader push towards agentic AI. CRED reported faster feature delivery and improved test coverage using the tool. Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems and support enterprise AI adoption.

Among startups, Razorpay has integrated Claude into risk systems and operational workflows. Enterpret uses Claude across product and engineering functions, while Emergent, an AI-powered software platform, reached $25 million in annual recurring revenue within five months, built entirely with Claude.

The India team will provide applied AI expertise to help organisations design and scale Claude-based solutions tailored to business needs.

Bridging the language gap

Anthropic has also launched initiatives to improve performance in 10 widely spoken Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Marathi, seeking to address persistent disparities in AI model fluency beyond English.

The company is collaborating with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to develop evaluation benchmarks for locally relevant use cases in agriculture and law, alongside Indian nonprofits such as Digital Green and Adalat AI. Anthropic said it intends to make these evaluations publicly available.

Education, justice and public infrastructure

Education accounts for around 12% of Claude’s use in India. Nonprofit Pratham is piloting an AI-powered “Anytime Testing Machine” across 20 schools, with plans to expand further. The tool supports exam preparation and certification pathways, particularly for underserved learners.

Anthropic is also partnering with the EkStep Foundation to explore AI applications within India’s digital public infrastructure, including agriculture through the OpenAgriNet initiative.

In the legal sector, the company is supporting Adalat AI in launching a national WhatsApp helpline aimed at improving access to case information. India has roughly 50 million pending court cases, and the tool will provide case updates, translation and document summaries in multiple Indian languages.

Open standards and government collaboration

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), recently donated to the Linux Foundation, is being adopted in India. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, with support from Bharat Digital, has launched a government MCP server to enable AI systems to query official statistics. Swiggy is using MCP to integrate grocery ordering and dining reservations into Claude.

The Bengaluru office, led by Ghose, will focus on hiring across technical and enterprise roles as Anthropic deepens its presence in India.

As global AI firms compete for infrastructure, users and talent, India’s combination of developer capacity, enterprise demand and public digital platforms positions it as a strategic market. The opening of Anthropic’s office signals that competition for that opportunity is intensifying.