Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India
Anthropic has opened a new Bengaluru office and announced a series of partnerships across enterprise, education, agriculture, and legal sectors in India. The company is expanding its Claude.ai usage in India, where it is the second‑largest market, and is working to improve language coverage and local task evaluations. Partnerships include collaborations with Karya, Digital Green, Adalat AI, Pratham, Central Square Foundation, EkStep Foundation, Noora Health, Intelehealth, and the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. Anthropic also donated its Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation and is engaging with METR and Hugging Face for safety evaluation.
The Core Development
India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai , home to a developer community doing some of the most technically intense AI work we see anywhere. Nearly half of Claude usage in India comprises computer and mathematical tasks: building applications, modernizing systems, and shipping production software.
Today, as we officially open our Bengaluru office, we’re announcing partnerships across enterprise, education, and agriculture that deepen our commitment to India across a range of sectors.
“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 of India, Anthropic. “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.”
Real-World Use Cases & Applications
Now, Anthropic is working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluations testing performance on locally relevant tasks across domains like agriculture and law, in partnership with domain experts from leading Indian nonprofits, including Digital Green and Adalat AI . This work will inform how we improve future models for speakers of Indic languages and for use cases important to India and the businesses that use Claude. We intend to make the evaluations publicly available for others to use.
Deployment & Availability
To support this growing customer base, our India team will offer applied AI expertise to enterprise customers, digital natives, and startups, helping them design, build, and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to their business needs.
Air India is using Claude Code to help developers ship custom software faster and at lower cost, as part of a broader push to use agentic AI across its operations. CRED achieved 2x faster feature delivery and 10% better test coverage with Claude Code. And Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernize legacy systems, accelerate software development, and support AI adoption among its enterprise clients.
The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), with the support of nonprofit Bharat Digital , recently launched the first official Indian government MCP server , enabling users of AI systems to access and query authoritative national statistics in an open and interoperable manner. In the private sector, Swiggy uses the MCP to allow people to order groceries and make dining reservations directly through Claude.
Strategic Perspective & Ecosystem Impact
More than a billion people in India speak one of over a dozen officially recognized languages, but AI models continue to perform better in English than they do in other languages. Six months ago, we launched a company-wide effort to narrow this gap by curating higher-quality, more representative training data in 10 of the most widely spoken languages throughout India: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu. This resulted in improvements to our models, and we continue to work on enhancing their fluency.
Our run-rate revenue in India has doubled since we announced our expansion in October 2025, and the range of organizations building on Claude reflects how broadly that growth is distributed—from large enterprises to digital-native companies to startups shipping their first products.
Among India’s startups, the story is similar. At Razorpay , AI is integrated into risk systems, decision-making processes, and operations across the company. Rocket uses Claude to let non-technical teams across enterprises build production-ready apps and websites in minutes and hours rather than weeks. At Enterpret , Claude powers its AI assistant, the engineering team builds with Claude Code daily, and the startup has shipped an MCP integration that brings customer insights directly into Claude. And Emergent , an AI-powered platform that lets anyone build software by describing what they want in plain language, reached $25 million in annual recurring revenue and two million users in under five months, built entirely with Claude.
Why it matters
The expansion demonstrates how large AI firms are tailoring models to local languages and sectors, reinforcing responsible AI deployment in emerging markets.