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Anthropic has opened a new office in Bengaluru and announced a series of partnerships across enterprise, education, agriculture, and the public sector in India, underscoring the country’s growing role in the company’s global strategy.
India is now the second-largest market for Claude.ai, with nearly half of usage tied to computer and mathematical tasks.
The company says its run-rate revenue in India has doubled since October 2025, reflecting uptake across large enterprises, digital-native companies, and startups. Alongside commercial growth, Anthropic is expanding research into Indic languages and low-resource AI capabilities, while supporting nonprofit and public sector initiatives.
Irina Ghose, Managing Director of India at Anthropic, says, “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.”
Enterprise expansion and startup growth
Anthropic reports that organizations ranging from national carriers to fintech firms are building on Claude. Air India is using Claude Code to help developers ship custom software faster and at lower cost as part of broader AI adoption. CRED reports two times faster feature delivery and improved test coverage using Claude Code. Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernize systems and support enterprise AI integration.
Among startups, Razorpay integrates AI into risk systems and operational workflows. Enterpret uses Claude to power its AI assistant and engineering workflows, while Emergent, an AI-driven software platform, reached $25 million in annual recurring revenue and two million users in under five months, built entirely with Claude.
Anthropic says its India team will provide applied AI expertise to help customers design and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to local business needs.
Investing in language and education
More than a billion people in India speak one of over a dozen officially recognized languages, yet AI systems continue to perform more reliably in English. Six months ago, Anthropic launched an initiative to improve performance in ten widely spoken Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.
The company is now working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluation benchmarks for locally relevant tasks in agriculture and law. Domain experts from Digital Green and Adalat AI are contributing to the effort, and Anthropic says it intends to make the evaluations publicly available.
Educational and instructional tasks account for 12 percent of Claude.ai usage in India. Pratham, one of India’s largest education nonprofits, selected Anthropic as its first strategic AI lab partner. Its Anytime Testing Machine, powered by Claude, is being piloted with 1,500 students across 20 schools and is expected to expand to 100 schools by the end of 2026. The tool was adapted earlier this year for more than 5,000 learners in Pratham’s Second Chance program, which supports women who have left formal schooling.
Anthropic is also collaborating with Central Square Foundation, providing technical support, mentorship, and API credits to organizations building AI-enabled tutors, teacher coaching tools, and assessment-driven systems.
Public sector and open standards
Anthropic is partnering with the EkStep Foundation to explore population-scale AI deployment in areas including agriculture, where the sector represents a significant portion of India’s economy and workforce. Through the OpenAgriNet effort, the company is working toward deployments that expand access to agricultural expertise.
In the legal domain, Anthropic is supporting Adalat AI to launch a national WhatsApp helpline providing case updates, translation, document summarization, and interactive querying of legal documents in Indian languages. India currently has tens of millions of pending court cases, and the initiative aims to improve access to judicial information.
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, recently donated to the Linux Foundation, is also gaining traction in India. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, supported by Bharat Digital, launched the first official Indian government MCP server, enabling AI systems to query national statistics in an interoperable format. In the private sector, Swiggy uses MCP to enable grocery ordering and restaurant reservations through Claude.
With its new Bengaluru office, Anthropic plans to hire across technical and operational roles. The expansion signals a long-term commitment to local talent and sector-specific deployment rather than limited market access.
As AI adoption in India accelerates, the scale of partnerships across enterprise, education, and government suggests a shift from experimentation to infrastructure. The challenge now is ensuring language equity, governance alignment, and measurable outcomes keep pace with deployment.
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