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Anthropic opens Bengaluru office
Summary
Anthropic has officially opened a Bengaluru office, marking its second in Asia after Tokyo, and announced partnerships spanning enterprise, education, agriculture, and public services in India. India is Claude.ai's second-largest market, with nearly half of usage involving computer and mathematical tasks; Anthropic says its run-rate revenue there has doubled since its October 2025 expansion. The company is improving support for Indic languages through training data in ten languages and is working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project on evaluations for locally relevant tasks in agriculture and law. Other initiatives include Claude-powered education pilots, public-sector projects such as an Adalat AI WhatsApp helpline, and adoption of the open-source Model Context Protocol, while the office will hire local talent and provide applied AI expertise to customers.
Context
Anthropic describes India as its second-largest Claude.ai market, with substantial use for computer and mathematical tasks and a need to improve AI performance in languages beyond English. The announcement also cites opportunities across enterprise, education, agriculture, public services, and digital public infrastructure.
Approach / What changed
Anthropic is expanding its Bengaluru team, providing applied AI support, improving models with representative data in ten Indic languages, developing locally relevant evaluations, and forming partnerships across business, education, nonprofits, agriculture, legal services, and government. It is also promoting adoption of the open-source Model Context Protocol.
Takeaways
Anthropic curated higher-quality training data in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu, reporting improvements to its models.
Pratham's Claude-powered Anytime Testing Machine is being piloted with 1,500 students across 20 schools, with plans to expand to 100 schools by the end of 2026.
Adalat AI's national WhatsApp helpline uses Claude for case updates, translation, document summarization, and interactive queries in native Indian languages.
Source and freshness
- Source
- anthropic.com
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- Added to Yomu
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