AI firm Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said entrepreneurial energy and technical acumen is unique in the country and he has seen the company’s India business doubling over the last four months.
“It's just really incredible to see kind of rate at which things are happening in India. I have seen many exciting applications here and they are pretty unique. One set that that I have seen is applications around large number of languages in India. Building things that interoperate between those languages and make it easier to translate or able to be multilingual. Government bodies elsewhere also don't move this fast,” said Amodei during Anthropic’s Builder Summit in Bengaluru.
He also expressed excitement at the pure scale of India with hundred millions of people in the market and where rapid AI experimentation was possible. Today, Anthropic also officially opened its first India office in Bengaluru and second in Asia after Tokyo. India is also globally the second-largest market for Claude.ai, from Anthrophic. Interestingly, nearly half of Claude usage in India comprises computer and mathematical tasks: building applications, modernising systems, and shipping production software.
“Since we announced our operations in India in October 2025 our revenue has become almost double here. We are partnering with organisations such as Cognizant, Air India, Razorpay etc. lndia is already home to extraordinary technical talent, digital infrastructure at scale, and a proven track record of using technology to improve people’s lives. That’s exactly the foundation you need to make sure this technology reaches the people who can benefit from it most,” remarked Irina Ghose, Managing Director of India, Anthropic.
Anthropic is also working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluations testing performance on locally relevant tasks across domains like agriculture and law, in partnership with domain experts from Indian non-profits including Digital Green and Adalat AI. To support its growing customer base, the company’s India team will offer applied AI expertise to enterprise customers, digital natives and startups, to help them design, build, and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to their business needs.
Air India is using Claude Code to help developers ship custom software faster and at lower cost, as part of a broader push to use agentic AI across its operations and IT services major Cognizant has deployed Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernise legacy systems, accelerate software development, and support AI adoption among its enterprise clients.
At Razorpay, AI is integrated into risk systems, decision-making processes, and operations across the company. Similarly, Anthropic is supporting Adalat AI to improve access to judicial services with a national WhatsApp helpline which was launched today. Using Claude, the firm provides instant case updates, plus translation, document summarisation, and interactive querying of legal documents in native Indian languages.
The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), with the support of non-profit Bharat Digital, recently launched the first official Indian government MCP server, enabling users of AI systems to access and query authoritative national statistics in an open and interoperable manner. In the private sector, Swiggy uses the Model Context Protocol to allow people to order groceries and make dining reservations directly through Claude.
