Anthropic opens its Bengaluru office with an India plan built around ten languages

Anthropic opened its Bengaluru office on February 16, publishing an India update alongside the announcement. The company describes the Bengaluru operation as its largest in India, and names enterprise, education and agriculture as the sectors where it intends to build partnerships. It also states that India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai.

• Largest India team, by the company's own description, based in Bengaluru
• Second-largest market for Claude.ai, according to Anthropic
• Partnership areas named: enterprise, education, agriculture
• Ten Indian languages to be worked on

The language work is the part with local consequence. A model that performs well in English and falls apart in the languages most of India speaks is not usable for the administrative, agricultural-extension and classroom tasks that a Bengaluru-based research team is best placed to understand. Naming ten languages is a commitment to evaluation and training data at a level where Indian labs have usually been subcontractors to larger US datasets.

The office was announced in October 2025, when CNBC reported that Anthropic would open its first India office in 2026. Six months later the location, the sector focus and the language target are on the record, which is a faster conversion from announcement to operation than most US AI companies manage in this market.