India is the second-largest market for Anthropic’s Claude.ai, with nearly half of usage focused on computer and mathematical tasks, including application development, system modernization, and production software delivery.
The company has officially opened a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia after Tokyo, led by Managing Director of India Irina Ghose. Anthropic said the expansion will support partnerships across enterprise, education, and agriculture, strengthening its commitment to India’s growing AI ecosystem.
Building AI for India’s Languages and Domains
More than a billion people in India speak one of over a dozen official languages. Six months ago, Anthropic launched an initiative to improve Claude’s performance in 10 widely spoken Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.
The company is working with organizations such as Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to evaluate Claude on locally relevant tasks in agriculture and law. These evaluations, in collaboration with nonprofits including Digital Green and Adalat AI, will inform future model improvements and be made publicly available.
Enterprise Adoption Across Industries
Claude.ai’s use in India spans large enterprises, digital-native companies, and startups. Air India uses Claude Code to accelerate software development. CRED reports faster feature delivery and improved test coverage with Claude Code, while Cognizant deploys Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernize systems and integrate AI into operations.
Startups such as Razorpay, Enterpret, and Emergent are building products entirely on Claude, including AI assistants, risk and decision-making systems, and software platforms that allow users to generate applications with plain-language instructions.
Expanding Access to Education and Public Services
Educational applications represent 12% of Claude usage in India. Anthropic is partnering with Pratham and the Central Square Foundation to bring AI-enabled tools to underserved students, including women in the Second Chance program.
In the public sector, Claude is being applied to agriculture via the OpenAgriNet initiative and to health and legal services through partnerships with Noora Health, Intelehealth, and Adalat AI, providing real-time case updates, translation, and document summarization.
Driving Adoption With Open Standards
Anthropic developed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an open-source standard for connecting AI to external systems and recently contributed it to the Linux Foundation. The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation launched the first official MCP server, while private companies like Swiggy use MCP to integrate AI into consumer services.
Anthropic’s Bengaluru office will focus on hiring local talent across enterprise, startup, and research roles. The company plans to continue expanding its partnerships and deployments in India, aiming to increase AI access across education, agriculture, enterprises, and public services.
