Anthropic opens Bengaluru Office and Expands AI Partnerships

Anthropic has opened a new office in Bengaluru as it deepens its investment in India, now the second-largest market for Claude.ai.

India is home to one of the most technically advanced developer communities using its models.

Nearly half of Claude usage in India involves computer and mathematical tasks, including building applications, modernising systems and shipping production software.

The expansion comes alongside new partnerships spanning enterprise, education and agriculture, reflecting what Anthropic described as a long-term commitment to the Indian market.

Irina Ghose, Managing Director of Anthropic, India, said:

“India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises.

“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.”

India’s linguistic diversity remains a central focus. More than a billion people speak one of over a dozen officially recognised languages, yet AI systems typically perform better in English than in regional languages.

To narrow this gap, Anthropic curated higher-quality and more representative training data in 10 widely spoken Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu.

The company said this work has already improved model performance and fluency, with further enhancements ongoing.

Anthropic is now working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to develop evaluations for locally relevant tasks in agriculture and law.

The evaluations will inform future model improvements for Indic language speakers and sector-specific use cases. Anthropic intends to make the evaluation tools publicly available.

Commercially, the company said its run-rate revenue in India has doubled since announcing its expansion in October 2025. Growth spans large enterprises, digital-native firms and early-stage startups.

To support demand, the India team will provide applied AI expertise to enterprise customers, digital natives and startups to help organisations design, build and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to business needs.

Several major organisations are already deploying Claude.

Air India is using Claude Code to help developers ship custom software faster and at lower cost, as part of a broader push towards agentic AI across operations. CRED reported 2x faster feature delivery and 10% better test coverage with Claude Code.

Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems, accelerate software development and support AI adoption among enterprise clients.

Startups are also integrating Claude into core operations.

Education accounts for 12% of Claude.ai usage in India. Anthropic has partnered with Pratham, one of India’s largest education non-profits, as its first strategic AI lab partner.

Pratham’s Anytime Testing Machine, powered by Claude, is being piloted with 1,500 students across 20 schools. Plans are in place to expand to 100 schools by the end of 2026.

Earlier in 2026, the tool was adapted for more than 5,000 learners in Pratham’s Second Chance programme, which supports women who have left formal education.

The platform aims to provide flexible and credible pathways to learning and certification by helping students practise for exams.

The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, supported by Bharat Digital, has launched the first official Indian government MCP server. The system allows AI users to access and query authoritative national statistics in an open and interoperable format.

In the private sector, Swiggy uses the Model Context Protocol to enable grocery orders and dining reservations directly through Claude.

Anthropic said its Bengaluru office is its second base in Asia after Tokyo. The company expects partnerships across public and private sectors to expand further as its India operations scale.