Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has opened its new office in Bengaluru, India. This is the company’s first office in the country — which also happens to be the second largest market for Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant.
The Bengaluru office will be Anthropic’s second in Asia after Tokyo, and will be led by tech veteran managing director Irina Ghose. The company will hire local talent and offer applied AI expertise to help enterprises, digital natives, and startups scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to Indian needs, it said in a statement.
“India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises,” Ghose said.
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The announcement was made on the same day of the AI Impact event in New Delhi, one of the largest global gatherings focused on policy and investment innovation. Anthropic will be engaging with policymakers, global technology leaders and potential enterprise partners as it signals its commitment to the Indian market.
Ghose said “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.”
Anthropic in India is currently working on developing new AI models in languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi and Gujarati. It is also working with firms such as Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluations that test performance in relevant tasks across domains such as agriculture and law, in partnership with domain experts from leading Indian nonprofit groups including Digital Green and Adalat AI.
Major companies Air India, and Cognizant are also using Anthropic’s products. Air India is using Claude Code to create custom software at lower cost than some of its rivals offer, while Cognizant has adopted Claude to help 350,000 employees around the world modernize legacy systems and support AI adoption among its enterprise clients, the company said.
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Anthropic is also supporting Indian startups including Razorpay, Enterpret and Emergent in the adoption of AI. Pratham, one of India’s largest education nonprofits, is also using Anthropic technology.
“Our run-rate revenue in India has doubled since we announced our expansion in October 2025 and the range of organisations building on Claude reflects how broadly that growth is distributed – from large enterprises to digital-native companies to start-ups shipping their first products,” Anthropic said.