Key Highlights:

• India is now Anthropic’s second-largest market for Claude.ai, driven by developer-heavy use cases.
• New partnerships span enterprise, education, agriculture, and justice, with a strong focus on Indic languages.
• Open standards like MCP gain government and enterprise adoption, including India’s first official MCP server.

Anthropic has officially opened its Bengaluru office and announced a broad set of partnerships across India. The move matters because India is now the company’s second-largest market for Claude.ai, with heavy usage in software, math, and enterprise workloads.

Why is Anthropic expanding in India now?

India has emerged as a critical growth market for Anthropic. According to the company, nearly half of Claude.ai usage in India involves computer science and mathematical tasks. These include application development, system modernization, and production software delivery.

As a result, Anthropic says its India revenue run rate has doubled since October 2025. The new Bengaluru office is designed to support this demand with local talent, applied AI expertise, and closer customer engagement.

The office is led by Irina Ghose, Managing Director of India, and becomes Anthropic’s second Asia office after Tokyo.

How Anthropic plans to fix AI’s language gap in India

India has over a billion speakers across more than a dozen official languages. Yet AI systems still perform best in English. To address this, Anthropic launched a focused effort six months ago to improve Claude’s performance in 10 widely spoken Indian languages.

These include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.

Now, Anthropic is working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to test how Claude performs on real-world Indian tasks. These evaluations focus on domains like agriculture and law. Domain experts from Indian nonprofits such as Digital Green and Adalat AI are involved.

Importantly, Anthropic plans to release these evaluations publicly. This could help other developers benchmark and improve Indic-language AI systems.

Which Indian companies are building on Claude?

Anthropic’s India partnerships span large enterprises, digital-native companies, and startups.

• Air India is using Claude Code to ship custom software faster and reduce development costs.
• CRED reports 2x faster feature delivery and better test coverage with Claude Code.
• Cognizant is rolling out Claude to 350,000 employees worldwide for legacy modernization and AI adoption.

Among startups, Razorpay uses Claude across risk and operations. Enterpret relies on Claude for customer intelligence. Emergent, built entirely with Claude, crossed $25 million in annual recurring revenue in under five months.

How Claude is reaching classrooms and communities

Education makes up about 12% of Claude.ai usage in India.

Anthropic has partnered with Pratham, one of India’s largest education nonprofits, to pilot the Anytime Testing Machine. Powered by Claude, it helps students practice for exams and gain credible certifications. The program already reaches thousands of learners and plans to expand further by 2026.

Separately, Anthropic is working with Central Square Foundation to support AI-enabled education tools for underserved communities. The focus is on tutoring, teacher support, and assessment-driven learning.

Can AI improve agriculture and justice at scale?

Anthropic is also exploring population-scale AI deployments with EkStep Foundation. One major focus is agriculture, which employs nearly half of India’s workforce. Through OpenAgriNet, Claude is being tested to expand access to expert agricultural knowledge.

In the justice system, Anthropic supports Adalat AI’s new WhatsApp helpline. Powered by Claude, it offers instant case updates, document summaries, translations, and legal queries in Indian languages. This addresses a system with nearly 50 million pending cases.

Why open standards matter in this expansion

Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI systems with external data sources. It recently donated MCP to the Linux Foundation.

India has already adopted it. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation launched the country’s first official MCP server, allowing AI systems to query national statistics. In the private sector, Swiggy uses MCP to enable ordering directly through Claude.

What this means for Anthropic in India

With its Bengaluru office now open, Anthropic plans to hire locally and deepen partnerships across sectors. The company says India will play a key role in shaping future Claude models, especially for Indic languages and high-impact use cases.

As Anthropic continues to expand, India is no longer just a user market. It is becoming a development and deployment hub for Claude.ai.