Anthropic is expanding its global operations to India with plans to open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026.

The AI research company revealed that Bengaluru will be its second Asia-Pacific location after Tokyo, where it is opening an office in the coming months.

The announcement comes after Anthropic said last month that it plans to triple its international workforce and expand its applied artificial intelligence team fivefold this year, responding to rising demand for its Claude models beyond the United States.

The company said nearly 80 per cent of consumer activity for Claude now originates outside the US, with per-capita adoption in South Korea, Australia and Singapore outpacing American usage.

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As part of the move, the firm said it intends to implement AI to achieve “social impact” in sectors such as education, healthcare and agriculture, as well as supporting key industries through strategic partnerships with Indian companies, non-profit organisations and start-ups.

It added that this would boost India's rapidly growing AI ecosystem, with the new Bengaluru office aiming to support the Indian entrepreneurial landscape in its growth.

Anthropic, valued at $183 billion and backed by Alphabet and Amazon, has grown its global business customer base from under 1,000 to more than 300,000 in two years, while run-rate revenue rose from about $1 billion at the start of 2025 to more than $5 billion by August.

The company said its plans in India reflect growing international demand for Claude in the country.

According to its data, India ranks second globally in consumer use of Claude, surpassed only by the US.

According to Anthropic, a “disproportionately high amount” of Claude's usage in India is dedicated to technical and programming-related activities, including mobile user interface development and web application debugging.

Large companies such as Bangalore-based FinTech CRED are also currently relying on Claude for coding work.

“We believe Claude has the potential to dramatically accelerate growth among India's export-focused IT services industry,” Anthropic said.

Anthropic chief executive and co-founder Dario Amodei will visit India this week to meet with government officials and business partners with a view to strengthening the company's commitment to the region.

In a statement, Amodei said that India's breadth of technical talent and the Indian government's commitment will ensure that the benefits of AI reach all sectors of society, not just “concentrated pockets”.

He stressed the existence of “deep alignment” between the challenges India is facing and Anthropic's mission as a company, from implementing AI in different languages and contexts to creating structures for responsible governance.

“India's AI ecosystem will play a central role in how AI develops globally and democratically, and we’re looking forward to working with organisations in India to pave a path for how beneficial AI can be scaled in a way that serves everyone,” he said.

Paul Smith, Anthropic’s chief commercial officer, added the expansion comes at a “pivotal moment” when Indian enterprises and startups are seeking “AI models they can trust.”

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