Anthropic to open first India office in 2026

On Wednesday, anthropic said that he plans to open his first office in India and entered a market where the use of artificial intelligence has grown and the opponent Openai is already progressing.

. AmazonAI, which is worth 183 billion dollars, said that it plans to open an office in Bengaluru at the beginning of 2026. After Tokyo, Japan, it will be the company’s second office in Asia.

The company said anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited India to meet public officials and corporate partners this week.

It is expected to increase rapidly in India to adopt AI among both consumers and businesses. More than 90% of the workers in the district already use AI, Boston Consulting GroupTo mark the highest son in the world.

“India is challenging because of the commitment to ensure that the benefits of artificial intelligence, not only in intensive pockets, but to all areas of society,” Amodei said, “Indiai is compelling.” He said.

Anthropic said that his focus in India will establish artificial intelligence for “social impact” in sectors such as education and health services and “support key industries through strategic partnerships”.

Claude is an anthropic’s key product and challenging Openai. Anthropic, Hindi Claude “advanced performance” as well as a dozen languages ​​spoken in India, he said. Anthropic said that India is currently in the second place in terms of use of Claude behind the USA.

The company’s expansion to India is coming because it accelerates the pushing of the opponent Openai to the country this year. Openai has launched a low -cost subscription plan for the flagship Chatgpt product and is also reported to be planning to open an office in the country.

But there is something anthropic to do. According to Analytics, Appfigures, Claude was downloaded in India 118,000 times in August.

India Push is part of a wider global expansion plan for anthropics, as it enlarges its international labor force and looks at more corporate customer.