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US-based AI research company Anthropic has announced that it will open its first office in India in early 2026, as part to expand the presence of the company in Asia Pacific region. This will serve as the company’s second office in Asia Pacific after Tokyo, which is also opening in the coming months.
Anthropic has developed the AI chatbot Claude, a competitor of ChatGPT. Anthropic is backed by Online retailer giant Amazon.
This expansion plan comes in the backdrop of large consumer base of Claude in the country. India ranks second globally in consumer usage of Claude, behind only the US, according to the company’s Economic Index Report.
“And a disproportionately large amount of Claude usage in India is for technical and programming-related tasks, such as mobile UI development and web app debugging,” Anthropic added in the post.
“This expansion will help us serve India’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem and reflects the increasing international demand we’re seeing for Claude,” Anthropic announced in the blog post.
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei is visting India this week to meet with public officials and enterprise partner.
Focus On Social Impact Sectors
Anthropic in the post said that the company’s will likely deploy AI for sectors having social impact, like education, healthcare, and agriculture, as well as supporting key industries through strategic partnerships with Indian enterprises, nonprofits, and startups.
The Bengaluru office will support India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem as it develops the next generation of dynamic companies, Anthropic noted.
AI firm said that its expansion in India will also focus on investing in advancing Claude’s Indic language capabilities. “Building robust support for the languages and contexts that matter most to users in India will be a cornerstone of our work in the region,” Anthropic added in the post.
Continuing Investment In Advancing Indic Languages
Claude already provides support across major Indic languages, and will launch enhanced performance in Hindi and nearly a dozen additional languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.
