Anthropic Co-founder Dario Amodei on Claude’s Explosive Growth
Bengaluru: Anthropic CEO and Co-Founder Dario Amodei on Monday highlighted the extraordinary “technical density” of Claude usage in India, noting that the company’s run rate revenue in the country has doubled in the last four months alone, driven by a thriving developer community. Claude is a family of AI assistant models developed by Anthropic. It is named after Claude Shannon, the father of information theory. As reported by MoneyControl, Amodei made this statement during a fireside chat at the Anthropic Builder Summit in Bengaluru, where he spoke to host Aruna Rao in front of 250 builders and developers. Meanwhile, Anthropic opened its first India office located in Bengaluru today.
“One of the most unique things about India is the technical intensity of Claude’s use,” Amodei said. “We’ve always seen a mix of casual consumer use and professional consumer and developer use. But I think it’s even more so here in India. We have a big community of developers using API, developers using Claude code or Claude code within the API. I think Anthropic’s business, its run rate revenue in India, has doubled in the last four months since my last visit. And Claude code may have grown even faster with this group of developers.”
Claude described the acceleration as “truly incredible”, reflecting the global explosion in models and coding talent, but “which is much more extreme in India than we’ve seen in other parts of the world”. Amodei praised India’s entrepreneurial energy, technical acumen and market efficiency, saying the country exceeded what he had observed elsewhere. “The energy of so many people wanting to find things and build things far exceeds what I’ve seen anywhere else,” he said.
He cited the Ministry of Statistics, which built an MCP server to query economic data, as an example of rapid government adoption. “Generally speaking, government bodies elsewhere don’t move that quickly. So I think that kind of entrepreneurial energy and technical acumen is really unique here.” Highlighting scale as a key advantage, Amodei said: “Pure scale allows us to experiment with hundreds of millions of people here, allows us to learn things very quickly that you can’t do in smaller markets, and so the ability of entrepreneurs, builders, to learn fast and fail fast, I think, exceeds what we see here in many other places.”
On India’s potential contributions to global AI, he highlighted multilingual apps that draw on the country’s various languages, non-profit efforts like Adalat AI for interrogating cases, collaborations with the Xstep Foundation for digital infrastructure, and tools to help small farmers with productivity tips.
Addressing global companies, Amodei advised “where the puck is going” by developing future model talents. “You have to be creative about where the technology goes. Don’t create the fourth step of a 10-step workflow, try and execute the entire workflow even if the AI model isn’t capable of doing it yet.” He encouraged broad, forward-looking deployments by sharing how Anthropic’s own departments were using intermediary engines before public releases. Reflecting on broader AI implications in his articles “The Adolescence of Artificial Intelligence” and “Machines of Loving Grace,” Amodei emphasized responsible development amidst unprecedented change. “This technology will truly change the world at a pace and degree we have never seen before with any other technology. We must be mindful that models can be misused, we need our customers’ help.”
He advocated building for democracy, economic inclusion, medical benefits, and long-term human well-being rather than addictive short-term products. For the 250 participating builders, Amodei expressed excitement about upcoming advances in fields such as science, healthcare, biology, end-to-end software workflows, and finance and law. “People can step into the role of auditor and accelerate themselves from 10 times to 100 times. There will be several different takes, a thousand flowers bloom, it’s a very exciting time.”
The session highlighted the growing importance of India in the global AI landscape and Amodei urged developers to develop thoughtfully for inclusive, impactful progress. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI researchers and executives and is best known for developing a family of AI models called Claude.
