India’s AI boom gets bigger as Anthropic launches Bengaluru office

In a statement, Anthropic said India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai and home to a developer community undertaking some of the most technically intensive AI work globally. Nearly half of Claude usage in India is focused on computer and mathematical tasks, including building applications, modernising systems and deploying production software.

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The company also confirmed partnerships across enterprise, education and agriculture, underscoring its commitment to expanding operations across multiple sectors in India.

“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, 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 needed to ensure this technology reaches those who can benefit from it most.”

Over the past six months, Anthropic said it has launched a company-wide initiative to improve the quality and representation of training data in 10 widely spoken Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu. The company said the effort has already led to measurable improvements in model fluency, with further enhancements underway.

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Anthropic is also collaborating with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to develop evaluation frameworks for locally relevant tasks across sectors such as agriculture and law. These efforts are being undertaken with domain experts from Indian nonprofits, including Digital Green and Adalat AI. The company said the evaluation tools will be made publicly available to support broader ecosystem development.

Anthropic added that its run-rate revenue in India has doubled since announcing its expansion in October 2025. The growth spans large enterprises, digital-native firms and startups building their first products on Claude.

To support its expanding customer base, the India team will provide applied AI expertise to enterprises and startups, helping them design, build and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to business needs.

Among its enterprise clients, Air India is using Claude Code to help developers deliver custom software faster and at lower cost as part of a broader agentic AI strategy. CRED reported 2x faster feature delivery and a 10% improvement in test coverage using Claude Code. Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems, accelerate software development and support AI adoption among enterprise clients.

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Educational and instructional tasks account for 12% of Claude.ai usage in India. Pratham selected Anthropic as its first strategic AI lab partner, citing a shared focus on safety and educational rigour. Its “Anytime Testing Machine”, powered by Claude, is currently being piloted with 1,500 students across 20 schools and is expected to expand to 100 schools by the end of 2026. The tool has also been adapted for over 5,000 learners in Pratham’s Second Chance programme, which supports women who have dropped out of formal schooling.

Anthropic is collaborating with Central Square Foundation to strengthen the use of EdTech and AI in underserved communities. As part of the initiative, Anthropic will provide technical expertise, mentorship and API credits to organisations building AI-enabled tools such as personalised tutors, teacher coaching platforms and assessment-driven instruction systems.

Additionally, the company is partnering with the EkStep Foundation to explore population-scale AI applications in priority sectors. Agriculture — which contributes nearly one-sixth of India’s GDP and employs almost half of the workforce — is a key focus area. Through the OpenAgriNet initiative, Anthropic aims to deploy Claude-based solutions that expand access to expert knowledge and support productivity in the agricultural sector.