Our new Bengaluru office—Anthropic’s second in Asia after Tokyo—has officially opened. Led by Managing Director of India Irina Ghose, an enterprise and startup technology leader, the office will focus on hiring local talent across a wide array of roles, it added.
“India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises,” said Irina Ghose, Managing Director of India, Anthropic.
“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,” she added.
India is the second-largest market for Anthropic’s Claude.ai, home to a developer community doing some of the most technically intense AI work we see anywhere. Nearly half of Claude usage in India comprises computer and mathematical tasks: building applications, modernizing systems, and shipping production software.
Anthropic is working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluations testing performance on locally relevant tasks across domains like agriculture and law, in partnership with domain experts from leading Indian nonprofits including Digital Green and Adalat AI. This work will inform how we improve future models for speakers of Indic languages and for use cases important to India and the businesses that use Claude. We intend to make the evaluations publicly available for others to use.
The company said its India team will offer applied AI expertise to enterprise customers, digital natives and startups, helping them design, build, and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to their business needs.
Anthropic said it is collaborating with Central Square Foundation to use EdTech and AI more effectively to educate children from underserved communities. As part of this collaboration, Anthropic will provide technical expertise, mentorship, and API credits to organizations developing AI-enabled tools—including personalized tutors, teacher coaching solutions, and assessment-driven instruction—with the goal of reaching more primary school students across India.
India has a track record of building interoperable digital public infrastructure that improves people’s lives. Anthropic is partnering with the EkStep Foundation to explore how AI can build on these efforts and deliver population-scale impact in the domains that matter most to India. Agriculture is one example. It makes up nearly a sixth of the Indian economy and employs nearly half of the labor force. Using the OpenAgriNet effort, we are working towards deployments of Claude that expand access to expert knowledge in this critical sector.
India has 50 million pending court cases, and routine updates often take months to reach litigants. Accessing case information typically requires repeated court visits or intermediaries to navigate paper files and legal jargon. Anthropic is supporting Adalat AI to improve access to judicial services with a national WhatsApp helpline launching today. Using Claude, it provides instant case updates, plus translation, document summarization, and interactive querying of legal documents in native Indian languages.
Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a universal open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems and recently donated it to the Linux Foundation.
The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), with the support of nonprofit Bharat Digital, recently launched the first official Indian government MCP server, enabling users of AI systems to access and query authoritative national statistics in an open and interoperable manner. In the private sector, Swiggy uses the Model Context Protocol to allow people to order groceries and make dining reservations directly through Claude.
