Anthropic to open first India office as rival OpenAI boosts presence in the country

Anthropic connected Wednesday said it plans to unfastened its archetypal bureau successful India, entering a marketplace wherever artificial quality usage is increasing and its rival OpenAI is already making headway.

The Amazon-backed AI firm, valued astatine $183 billion, said it plans to unfastened an bureau successful Bengaluru successful aboriginal 2026. It volition beryllium the company's 2nd bureau successful Asia aft Tokyo, Japan.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, is visiting India this week to conscionable with nationalist officials and endeavor partners, the institution said.

AI adoption among some consumers and businesses is expected to ramp up rapidly successful India. More than 90% of workers successful the region already usage AI, according to Boston Consulting Group, marking the highest adoption successful the world.

"India is compelling due to the fact that of the standard of its method endowment and the committedness from the Indian authorities to guarantee the benefits of artificial quality scope each areas of society, not conscionable concentrated pockets," Amodei said successful a property release.

Anthropic said its absorption successful India volition beryllium deploying AI for "social impact" successful sectors similar acquisition and healthcare, arsenic good arsenic "supporting cardinal industries done strategical partnerships."

Claude is Anthropic's cardinal merchandise and challenger to OpenAI. Anthropic said it would motorboat "enhanced performance" successful Hindi for Claude, arsenic good arsenic astir a twelve different languages spoken successful India. Anthropic said India presently ranks 2nd successful presumption of Claude usage, down the U.S.

The company's enlargement into India comes arsenic rival OpenAI has stepped up its propulsion into the country this year. OpenAI launched a low-cost subscription program for its flagship ChatGPT merchandise and is besides reportedly readying to unfastened an bureau successful the country.

Anthropic has immoderate catching up to do, however. Claude was downloaded 118,000 times successful August successful India, versus 10.3 cardinal ChatGPT downloads and 6.4 cardinal of Perplexity, according to analytics steadfast Appfigures.

The India propulsion is portion of a broader planetary enlargement plan for Anthropic arsenic it grows its planetary workforce and looks to onboard much endeavor customers.