Anthropic announced the opening of its first India office in Bengaluru on Monday, as well as a series of various partnerships across companies, linguistics, non-profit organisations and digital public infrastructure, according to a blog post from the company on Monday.
"India represents one of the world's most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises,” Irina Ghose, managing director of Anthropic India, said.
“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 you need to make sure this technology reaches the people who can benefit from it most.” she added.
This is Anthropic's second office in Asia after opening up one in Tokyo.
We're officially opening our Bengaluru office—our new home base in India, and Anthropic's second office in Asia-Pacific.
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) February 16, 2026
India is our second-largest market for https://t.co/RxKnLNNcNR. We're launching new partnerships to deepen our long-term commitment: https://t.co/q94L1Hesq1
The Claude AI developer stated that it has partnered with companies like Air India to aid developers in creating and shipping custom software as required by the airline company. Other established companies that Anthropic reported partnerships with include fintech firm CRED, which is using Claude Code to achieve feature delivery that's twice as fast and test coverage that was 10% better.
Cognizant is also using Claude to modernise legacy systems, ramp up software development and facilitate the adoption of AI among its enterprise clients. Anthropic reported that startups like Razorpay and Emergent as their customers.
The firm is also collaborating with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to create locally relevant AI models to help local language speakers who work in fields such as agriculture and law doing so in partnership with domain experts from prominent Indian nonprofit organisations such as including Digital Green and Adalat AI.
"This work will inform how we improve future models for speakers of Indic languages and for use cases important to India and the businesses that use Claude. We intend to make the evaluations publicly available for others to use," the blog said.
The firm also announced partnerships with the non-profit organisations Pratham and Central Square Foundation to facilitate the use of AI to create virtual lab partners and exam practice for certification as well as EdTech tools respectively, serving underprivileged sections of society.
The firm is also expanding its open source standards with the introduction of Model Context Protocol, which is a universal open source standard that links AI applications to external systems.
The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation collaborated with the non-profit organisation Bharat Digital to launch the first official Indian government MCP server which AI users can access and scrutinise authoritative national statistics in an interoperable manner.
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