Anthropic, the AI research and development firm behind the Claude large language model, has officially said it will begin expanding its global presence to India, a country where the artificial intelligence race is now rapidly accelerating. Its first office will be organized in Bengaluru, India, where the company will start its operations in early years of 2026. This strategic action reflects the increased significance of the Indian market to frontier AI design and implementation. 

Mission and global development

Bengaluru, the well-known technology hub in India, is selected as the site of a new office because of its high talent concentration and the location of the city being close to the conducive enterprise and startup atmosphere in India. The second office of Anthropic in the Asia-Pacific region will be the India office, but there is a scheduled second office to be established in Tokyo, Japan, in the next few months. This growth indicates the fast-growing global demand for the Claude models of Anthropic.

The Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, will be visiting India this week to establish the commitment of the company and talk with the representatives of the government and business associates. India is one of the key elements of the global strategy of the company, which was estimated to be worth 183 billion following a massive funding round in September. 

According to Amodei, India is dealing with the issues that Anthropic is trying to fight, which are deeply aligned with the mission of the company, particularly in the context of implementing AI in a variety of languages and contexts and constructing structures of responsible governance. He underlined the fact that the AI ecosystem in India is destined to become the focal point of the global and democratic development of AI. 

India, Anthropic’s second-largest global market 

Anthropic has made an Indian market that is the second-largest in the world in the consumption of its Claude chatbot, second only to the United States. This adoption rate emphasizes that there is a high demand in the country for highly developed AI tools, as enterprise technology spending is rising and the available technical talent in the country is increasing.

One of the reasons why Anthropic is focused on India is the way its models are being applied. The recent Economic Index Report of the company suggested that a very high portion of Claude use in India is due to technical work and software development, including mobile UI development and debugging a web application. This is a technical expertise that renders the Indian market especially profitable, especially for a product such as Claude that has already made its niche in proving its good ability in coding.

According to the Chief Commercial Officer of Anthropic, Paul Smith, Indian enterprises and startups are currently exploring AI models that they trust, which balance frontier performance with the safety and reliability to enable critical business operations to scale.

In the blog post, Anthropic announced, “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. This expansion will help us serve India’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem and reflects the increasing international demand we’re seeing for Claude.”

Quotation Source: News 18  

Three core pillars and localization effort 

Anthropic has plans of operations in India, which revolve around three pillars. First is empowering the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India to create companies that are competitive in the world market. Second is using AI to bring social change in priority areas such as education, health, and agriculture. Third is promoting major industries by getting strategic alliances with Indian businesses, nonprofits, and startups.

Anthropic is investing extensively in developing Claude to support the Indic language of the sub-continent in order to provide wide access and local relevance. The model is now supporting major languages in India, and the company is also planning to roll out better performance in Hindi to consumer interfaces. In addition, it is also focusing on training in almost twelve other languages, such as Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.

This is a localization initiative that is set to enhance the adoption of the public sector, education, and the general spread of AI in India. The beneficial deployments team at the company plans to collaborate with government-related bodies and nonprofits to apply the analytical skills of Claude to locally-led, data-driven, public health actions and research AI-driven learning technology to students.

Conclusion

Anthropic is planning to establish its first Indian office in Bengaluru at the beginning of 2026, making India a key player in the world AI segment. Through its emphasis on local talent, Indic language support, and strategic investments in major areas, Anthropic is not only poised to compete with existing players such as OpenAI and Google in this fast-growing market but also to align its mission of creating beneficial and responsible AI with the national AI goals of India.