Anthropic on Wednesday announced plans to expand its global operations to India, with a new office set to open in Bengaluru in early 2026.
The Bengaluru office will be the company’s second in the Asia Pacific region after Tokyo, which is expected to open soon. The move aims to support India’s growing AI ecosystem and meet rising international demand for its AI model, Claude.
CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei is visiting India this week to meet government officials and enterprise partners as part of the company’s regional expansion efforts.
“India is compelling because of the scale of its technical talent and the commitment from the Indian government to ensure the benefits of artificial intelligence reach all areas of society, not just concentrated pockets,” said Amodei. “There is deep alignment between the challenges India is tackling and our mission as a company, from deploying AI across diverse languages and contexts, to building frameworks for responsible governance.”
Anthropic said its India operations will focus on deploying AI for social impact in education, healthcare, and agriculture, and on supporting key industries through partnerships with enterprises, nonprofits, and startups. The Bengaluru office will also back India’s startup ecosystem and emerging technology companies.
According to Anthropic’s Economic Index Report, India ranks second globally in consumer usage of Claude, behind the United States. A large share of usage in India is for technical and programming-related tasks such as mobile UI development and web app debugging. Indian companies like CRED use Claude for critical coding work.
Paul Smith, Anthropic’s chief commercial officer, said, “Our expansion comes at a pivotal moment when Indian enterprises and startups are seeking AI models they can trust.” He further added that companies need systems that deliver advanced performance while ensuring the safety and reliability necessary to run large-scale business operations.
Anthropic also plans to strengthen Claude’s Indic language capabilities as part of its India expansion. The company said it will enhance performance in Hindi and nearly a dozen additional languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu, to broaden AI accessibility and support public sector adoption across the country.
Anthropic recently named Rahul Patil as its new chief technology officer. He will oversee engineering across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security.
Meanwhile, Anthropic’s rival, OpenAI, will open its first office in New Delhi later this year, marking its entry into India.
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