Anthropic Opens Bengaluru Office and Expands AI Partnerships Across India

Global artificial intelligence research firm Anthropic has officially opened its Bengaluru office, marking a strategic expansion of its India operations. The move underscores India’s importance as a key market for AI adoption and reflects the company’s growing commitment to local talent, enterprise solutions, and broad social impact initiatives. India has become Anthropic’s second largest market globally, trailing only the United States, particularly in technical adoption and developer use cases.

The new office, led by Irina Ghose, Managing Director for India, will support the company’s growth across sectors such as enterprise technology, education, agriculture, legal services and public infrastructure. It also positions Anthropic to hire local talent in research, product development and partnership roles.

India as a Strategic Growth Market

Anthropic describes India as one of the most promising opportunities for expanding responsible AI technology to new users and enterprises. The company has seen strong adoption of its Claude AI models, with nearly half of usage concentrated on engineering tasks, such as building applications, modernizing systems and launching production grade software.

India’s large engineering workforce, digital infrastructure, and diverse technology ecosystem provide a strong foundation for Anthropic’s expansion. As the company scales its India operations, it anticipates deeper engagement with local industry partners and startup communities.

Strategic Partnerships Across Sectors

Anthropic’s Bengaluru launch comes with collaborations aimed at applying Claude AI in practical, high-impact domains across India. These include:

Enterprise Adoption: Large organizations like Air India and Cognizant are integrating Claude AI into their software development processes to improve efficiency and reduce development costs. Air India uses Claude Code for custom software delivery, while Cognizant deploys Claude to modernize legacy systems across its workforce.

Startups and Digital Natives: Indian startups are adopting Anthropic’s AI models for diverse use cases. Payments platform Razorpay uses Claude for risk management and operations, Enterpret powers its AI assistant with Claude, and Emergent achieved rapid growth with a Claude powered development platform that reached substantial annual recurring revenue and user adoption.

Education and Social Impact: Anthropic partnered with the nonprofit Pratham to pilot an AI-enabled “Anytime Testing Machine,” currently being tested with students across schools and aimed at expanding to more institutions by the end of 2026. The collaboration also includes support from the Central Square Foundation to bring AI powered educational tools to underserved learner communities.

Agriculture and Legal Support: Through partnerships with organisations such as the EkStep Foundation, Anthropic is exploring AI applications in agriculture to provide expert knowledge access to farmers. In legal services, collaborations include support for Adalat AI, a WhatsApp-based helpline providing case updates, document summarization, and translation in native languages.

Commitment to Local Languages and Inclusivity

Anthropic is investing in making its models more effective across India’s linguistic diversity by building high quality training data for widely spoken Indian languages. This includes Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu. These improvements aim to make AI tools more accessible and relevant across local contexts and use cases.

By supporting multiple languages and regional use cases, Anthropic is aligning with India’s broader goal of inclusive digital access and equitable technology adoption.

Impact on the AI Ecosystem

The Bengaluru office strengthens Anthropic’s footprint in a competitive AI landscape. India has rapidly emerged as a hub for AI innovation, with major global firms and startups contributing to growth. Anthropic’s expansion is also accelerating enterprise and social adoption of AI solutions, reinforcing its position as a collaborator rather than just a vendor.

The company’s revenue run-rate in India has doubled since announcing its expansion plans, reflecting strong demand from both enterprises and smaller tech players alike.

Local Hiring and Talent Development

Anthropic’s Bengaluru office aims to generate new opportunities for AI researchers, engineers, product experts and business professionals. By investing in local hiring, the company will support India’s growing talent pool and contribute to building next generation AI capabilities in the region.

This local presence also facilitates deeper involvement with the community and encourages collaboration across sectors seeking to adopt advanced AI solutions.