Anthropic on Monday opened its first India office in Bengaluru and announced a slate of partnerships across enterprise, education and public infrastructure, coinciding with the India AI Impact Summit.
The US-based artificial intelligence company said India is now the second-largest market for its AI assistant Claude, with nearly half of domestic usage focused on computer and mathematical tasks. The company also claimed that its run-rate revenue in India has doubled since it unveiled expansion plans in October last year.
The Bengaluru office will be led by Irina Ghose, Managing Director, India. “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, underlining the firm’s long-term ambitions in the country.
As part of its India strategy, Anthropic has partnered with organisations including Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to advance ethical AI deployment in sectors such as agriculture and law. It is also working with non-profits Digital Green and Adalat AI to strengthen locally relevant applications.
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The company said it has launched initiatives to improve its models’ performance in 10 widely spoken Indic languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu, to deepen accessibility and regional adoption.
In the enterprise space, Claude Code is being used by major firms. Air India has adopted the tool to accelerate software development and AI integration, while fintech platform Cred has reported faster feature delivery and improved test coverage. IT services major Cognizant is rolling out Claude tools to 350,000 employees globally. Start-ups such as Razorpay, Enterpret and Emergent are also deploying Claude across risk management, engineering and product workflows.
Anthropic has expanded into education and public infrastructure partnerships as well. It is working with Pratham on an AI-powered “Anytime Testing Machine” currently piloted in 20 schools, with plans to scale to 100 by late 2026. In collaboration with Central Square Foundation, it aims to build AI-enabled learning tools for primary education.
In the public sector, the company is partnering with EkStep Foundation to integrate AI into digital public infrastructure and supporting Adalat AI’s WhatsApp-based legal assistance services.
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