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Anthropic opens first office in India
This new facility is Anthropic’s second in the Asia-Pacific region after Tokyo.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Tue, 17, Feb 2026
- 03:59 EST
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Anthropic logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic/Illustration
American artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has officially launched its first dedicated office in India, Bengaluru, which is widely recognised as India’s tech capital, marking a major milestone in its global expansion strategy and reinforcing the nation’s role as a key market for advanced AI technologies.
This Bengaluru facility, which is Anthropic’s second in the Asia-Pacific region after Tokyo, was inaugurated on Feb. 16 and is set to serve as a central hub for the company’s operations across the country.
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The move comes amid significant growth in demand for the company’s flagship AI assistant, Claude, particularly among enterprises and developers in India.
India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai, and nearly half of Claude's usage in India involves computer and mathematical tasks, including developing applications and shipping production software.
The Bengaluru office will be led by tech veteran managing director Irina Ghose amd the company reportedly plans on hiring local talent and offering applied AI expertise to help enterprises, digital natives, and startups scale Claude-powered solutions suiting Indian needs.
The announcement of the inauguration was made on the same day as the AI Impact event in New Delhi. Anthropic intends to engage with policymakers, global technology leaders, and potential enterprise partners to showcase its commitment to the Indian market.
Anthropic in India is currently working on creating new AI models in languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, and Gujarati.
The company is also working with firms like Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluations that examine performance in relevant tasks across domains such as agriculture and law, in partnership with domain experts from leading Indian nonprofit groups, including Digital Green and Adalat AI.
Major companies like Air India and Cognizant are also using Anthropic’s products.
Air India utilises Claude Code to create custom software at a lower cost than some of its rivals offer, while Cognizant has adopted Claude to help 350,000 employees globally in modernizing legacy systems and supporting AI adoption among its enterprise clients, as per the company.
Anthropic also supports Indian startups, including Razorpay, Enterpret, and Emergent, in the adoption of AI.
Pratham, one of India’s largest education nonprofits, is also using Anthropic technology.
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