Anthropic bets on India’s AI talent, to open Bengaluru office next year
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence major behind coding assistant Claude, said it will open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026, expanding its global footprint as international demand for its models continues to rise. The Bengaluru centre will be its second office in Asia-Pacific after Tokyo, which opens later this year.The move follows the San Francisco-based startup’s broader global expansion plan, under which it aims to triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI team fivefold in 2025. Nearly 80% of Claude’s usage currently comes from outside the US, with adoption in countries such as South Korea, Australia and Singapore already surpassing domestic levels.“India is compelling because of the scale of its technical talent and the commitment from the Indian government to ensure the benefits of artificial intelligence reach all areas of society,” said Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO, who is in India this week meeting public officials and enterprise leaders. “There is deep alignment between the challenges India is tackling and our mission as a company, from deploying AI across diverse languages and contexts to building frameworks for responsible governance.”Anthropic said its Bengaluru office will work with enterprises, nonprofits and startups to deploy AI for social impact in sectors such as education, healthcare and agriculture.India already ranks second globally in consumer usage of Claude, behind the US, with a large share of its users employing the tool for programming-related work such as mobile UI design and web app debugging. Companies including Cred use Claude for core coding workflows, the company said.Anthropic’s Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith had told CNBC in September that the company’s international growth is outpacing internal forecasts, with “major customers coming online well before boots hit the ground.” He added that Anthropic had limited physical presence in international markets until recently but already sees “very significant business” in regions such as Asia and Europe.The company said it is also expanding Claude’s Indic language capabilities across Hindi and nearly a dozen regional languages, including Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada, to improve accessibility and adoption across India.
