Anthropic announced that it will open its first office in India in early 2026, choosing the country’s tech capital, Bengaluru, as its base. The move marks a major step in the AI research company’s global expansion strategy as it competes with industry giants such as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
Co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is visiting India this week to highlight Anthropic’s commitment to building responsible AI systems that promote social benefit and economic growth, the company said.
To strengthen its local presence, Anthropic will set up a dedicated office in Bengaluru and hire a local team focused on developing AI tailored for India’s diverse and unique use cases.
In addition, the company announced that it is investing significantly in advancing the Indic language capabilities of its Claude AI assistant. While Claude already supports several major Indian languages, Anthropic plans to introduce enhanced Hindi performance for consumer-facing applications.
The firm is also prioritizing model training in nearly a dozen Indian languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.
These efforts come as Anthropic seeks to engage India’s rapidly growing AI developer community, especially at a time when major tech companies are aggressively expanding their AI models and tools to tap into one of the world’s largest developer ecosystems.
Anthropic expects that its initiatives will accelerate AI adoption in the public sector and education programs, enabling wider access to AI across the country. The company also aims to empower India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to create the next generation of globally competitive startups. These startups, Anthropic believes, will use AI for social impact in critical areas such as education, healthcare, and agriculture. The company also plans to support key industries by forming strategic partnerships with Indian enterprises, nonprofits, and startups.
Explaining the company’s interest in India, Amodei said, “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 added, “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. India’s AI ecosystem will play a central role in how AI develops globally and democratically, and we’re looking forward to working with organizations in India to pave a path for how beneficial AI can be scaled in a way that serves everyone.”
Currently, India stands as Anthropic’s largest market for its Claude AI assistant outside the United States, accounting for 7.2% of global usage. However, per capita usage remains relatively low at 0.27 times among the working-age population, according to Anthropic’s recent Economic Index report.
Interestingly, the report also noted that a disproportionately high share of Claude’s usage in India involves technical tasks such as mobile UI development and web app debugging.
Bengaluru will become Anthropic’s second office in the Indo-Pacific region, following Tokyo, Japan. The company stated that it chose Bengaluru due to the city’s strong talent pool and close connection to India’s enterprise ecosystem. Furthermore, Anthropic plans to expand its regional operations in the coming months.
At this pivotal moment, Paul Smith, Anthropic’s Chief Commercial Officer, emphasized the company’s timing and vision:
“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 the massive scale that 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 globally.”
Just weeks earlier, on September 26, Anthropic announced plans to triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI team fivefold this year to meet rising demand for Claude AI outside the U.S.
The firm’s global customer base has surged from fewer than 1,000 business customers two years ago to over 300,000 today, marking more than 300-fold growth. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s run-rate revenue has skyrocketed from $87 million at the start of 2024 to around $1 billion by early 2025, and it surpassed $5 billion by August 2025.
The company is now scouting for country leads in India and other key Asia-Pacific markets, including Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Singapore.
In India, users can access Claude models through the Anthropic API, as well as via Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Developers can also use Claude Code, Anthropic’s agentic command line tool, to accelerate their development workflows using natural language commands directly in the terminal.
Among Anthropic’s Indian customers is AI coding platform Emergent, which has integrated Claude into its systems to help users build production-ready web and mobile apps via its Vibe coding platform.
Anthropic also revealed that its beneficial deployments team plans to partner with government bodies and nonprofits to ensure AI acts as an accelerator for India’s development agenda. The company intends to leverage Claude’s analytical capabilities for data-driven public health initiatives and to collaborate with education organizations to pilot AI-powered learning tools for millions of students.
In addition, Anthropic plans to work with accelerators and social entrepreneurs to integrate AI into locally relevant solutions, with further details expected in the coming months.
