Anthropic opens first India office in Bengaluru as enterprise adoption of Claude AI surges

US-based AI startup Anthropic on Monday opened its first office in India, in Bengaluru, and announced a series of partnerships across enterprises, startups, education and agriculture.

India is now Anthropic’s second-largest market for its Claude AI models, with nearly half of local usage focused on computer science and mathematical tasks such as software development and system modernisation, the company said.

The new Bengaluru office, Anthropic’s second in Asia after Tokyo, will serve as a hub for hiring and customer support, led by India managing director Irina Ghose.

“India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises,” Ghose said in a statement.

“Already, it’s home to extraordinary technical talent, digital infrastructure at scale, and a proven track record of using technology to improve people’s lives. That’s exactly the foundation you need to make sure this technology reaches the people who can benefit from it most.”

Anthropic said its run-rate revenue in India has doubled since it announced its expansion plans in October last year.

Air India is deploying Claude to help developers build custom software faster, while fintech firm CRED said it achieved quicker feature delivery and improved testing coverage using Anthropic’s tools.

IT services company Cognizant is rolling out Claude to about 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems and accelerate software development, Anthropic said.

Indian startups including Razorpay are integrating Claude into risk and operations systems, while food delivery firm Swiggy is using Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol to enable grocery ordering and dining reservations directly through the AI assistant.

Anthropic said it is working with nonprofits and research groups to build public evaluation tools for AI performance in areas such as agriculture and law, and is supporting education programmes that use Claude-powered tools to reach students in low-income communities.

The company is partnering with Indian organisations to expand access to expert knowledge for farmers, while in the legal sector it is backing a WhatsApp-based service that provides case updates, translations and document summaries in local languages.

Anthropic said that its Model Context Protocol has been donated to the Linux Foundation, and that the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has launched its first official government server using the standard to make national data more accessible to AI systems.