Anthropic on Wednesday introduced plans to increase its international operations to India, with a brand new workplace set to open in Bengaluru in early 2026. 

The Bengaluru workplace would be the firm’s second within the Asia Pacific area after Tokyo, which is anticipated to open quickly. The transfer goals to assist India’s rising AI ecosystem and meet rising worldwide demand for its AI mannequin, Claude.

CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei is visiting India this week to fulfill authorities officers and enterprise companions as a part of the corporate’s regional enlargement efforts.

“India is compelling due to the dimensions of its technical expertise and the dedication from the Indian authorities to make sure the advantages of synthetic intelligence attain all areas of society, not simply concentrated pockets,” mentioned Amodei. “There may be deep alignment between the challenges India is tackling and our mission as an organization, from deploying AI throughout various languages and contexts, to constructing frameworks for accountable governance.”

Anthropic mentioned its India operations will give attention to deploying AI for social affect in training, healthcare, and agriculture, and on supporting key industries by partnerships with enterprises, nonprofits, and startups. The Bengaluru workplace may also again India’s startup ecosystem and rising know-how corporations.

In response to Anthropic’s Financial Index Report, India ranks second globally in client utilization of Claude, behind america. A big share of utilization in India is for technical and programming-related duties equivalent to cellular UI improvement and internet app debugging. Indian corporations like CRED use Claude for essential coding work.

Paul Smith, Anthropic’s chief industrial officer, mentioned, “Our enlargement comes at a pivotal second when Indian enterprises and startups are in search of AI fashions they’ll belief.” He additional added that corporations want techniques that ship superior efficiency whereas making certain the protection and reliability essential to run large-scale enterprise operations.

Anthropic additionally plans to strengthen Claude’s Indic language capabilities as a part of its India enlargement. The corporate mentioned it is going to improve efficiency in Hindi and almost a dozen further languages, together with Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu, to broaden AI accessibility and assist public sector adoption throughout the nation.

Anthropic not too long ago named Rahul Patil as its new chief know-how officer. He’ll oversee engineering throughout product, compute, infrastructure, inference, knowledge science, and safety.

In the meantime, Anthropic’s rival, OpenAI, will open its first workplace in New Delhi later this 12 months, marking its entry into India.