Anthropic has formally opened its Bengaluru office, underscoring India’s position as the second-largest market for its Claude.ai platform and announcing new partnerships across enterprise, education, and agriculture.
The announcement comes on the heels of AI Impact Summit 2026, happening in New Delhi, India, between February 16-20, 2026.
India is now home to one of the most technically intensive developer communities using Claude, with nearly half of usage in the country tied to computer and mathematical tasks. These include building applications, modernizing legacy systems, and deploying production-grade software, according to the company.
“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 at Anthropic. She cited the country’s technical talent, digital infrastructure at scale, and history of technology-driven impact as key enablers for broader AI adoption.
Six months ago, Anthropic launched a company-wide initiative to improve model performance in 10 widely spoken Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu. The effort involved curating higher-quality, more representative training data to narrow the performance gap. The company said this has already led to measurable improvements in model fluency, with further enhancements underway.
Anthropic is also collaborating with Karya and Collective Intelligence Project to develop evaluations tailored to locally relevant tasks in agriculture and law. Domain experts from Indian nonprofits such as Digital Green and Adalat AI are contributing to the initiative. The evaluations are expected to be made publicly available.
Revenue Growth And Enterprise Adoption Accelerate
Anthropic said its India run-rate revenue has doubled since announcing its expansion in October 2025. The growth spans large enterprises, digital-native companies, and early-stage startups building and launching their first products on Claude.
The Bengaluru office is positioned as a hub for deepening sector-specific collaborations while supporting India’s fast-growing AI ecosystem.
