The news comes as Anthropic seeks to grow its presence in India. Led by the company’s managing director of India, Irina Ghose, the new office plans to focus on hiring local talent across a broad range of job roles. This is Anthropic’s second office in Asia after Tokyo, which opened in October 2025.

First announced in October 2025, Anthropic has a strong interest in India as its Claude AI services continue to experience surging international demand. In fact, India is the second-largest market for Claude, with nearly half of Claude usage in India consisting of computer and mathematical tasks – building applications, modernising systems and shipping production software.

“India represents one of the world’s most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises,” said Ghose. “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 also shared that it launched a company-wide effort six months ago to narrow the ‘AI language gap’ by curating better quality and more representative training data in languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu.

The company said this resulted in improvements to its models and it is now working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to inform how it improves future AI models for speakers of these languages – intending to make the findings publicly available for others to use.

Likewise, the Anthropic India team plans to offer applied AI expertise to support its growing customer base in the region. It aims to help these businesses design, build and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to their specific business needs.

“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 startups shipping their first products,” Anthropic said in its press release.

In education, Anthropic is partnering with a range of organisations to support students in low-income communities. This includes collaborating with Central Square Foundation to use EdTech and AI more effectively to support children from underserved communities. Anthropic said it will provide technical expertise, mentorship and API credits to organisations developing AI-enabled tools.

Likewise in agriculture, the company is working with the EkStep Foundation to examine how AI can deliver population-scale impact across India.

“India has a track record of building interoperable digital public infrastructure that improves people’s lives,” Anthropic said. “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.”

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