Anthropic has officially opened its Bengaluru office, deepening its commitment to India, now its second-largest market for Claude.ai. The company announced a series of partnerships spanning enterprise, education and agriculture, alongside expanded efforts to strengthen AI capabilities in Indian languages.
India has emerged as a key growth market for Claude, with nearly half of usage in the country focused on computer and mathematical tasks such as application development, system modernisation and production software deployment. Anthropic said its run-rate revenue in India has doubled since announcing expansion plans in October 2025, reflecting adoption across large enterprises, digital-native firms and startups.
“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 of India at Anthropic. She highlighted the country’s deep technical talent pool and digital infrastructure as key enablers for scaling responsible AI adoption.
Recognising that AI models tend to perform better in English than in many Indian languages, Anthropic launched a company-wide initiative six months ago to curate higher-quality training data across ten widely spoken languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu. The effort has already improved model fluency, with further enhancements underway.
Anthropic is now collaborating with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to develop evaluation benchmarks for locally relevant tasks in domains such as agriculture and law. The initiative includes partnerships with Indian nonprofits, including Digital Green and Adalat AI. The company plans to make these evaluation tools publicly available to help advance AI performance for Indic-language speakers and India-specific use cases.
Several major organisations in India are deploying Claude across operations. Air India is using Claude Code to accelerate custom software development as part of a broader agentic AI strategy. CRED reported twice the speed in feature delivery and improved test coverage using Claude Code. Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems and accelerate AI adoption among enterprise clients.
Startups are also scaling rapidly with Claude. Razorpay has integrated AI into risk management and operations. Rocket enables non-technical teams to build production-ready applications using Claude. Enterpret integrates Claude into its AI assistant and engineering workflows. Meanwhile, Emergent has reached $25 million in annual recurring revenue and two million users in under five months, built entirely with Claude.
With a growing developer base, expanding enterprise footprint and focused investments in Indic language capabilities, Anthropic said its India strategy aims to ensure responsible AI reaches sectors and communities where it can deliver meaningful impact at scale.
