Anthropic’s Claude is seeing sustained growth in India, with expanding partnerships across enterprise, education, and agriculture aimed at responsible AI adoption and India-specific use cases.

Bengaluru is highlighted as a regional hub for Anthropic, reflecting India’s strategic importance with Claude’s market share: United States 22%, India 5.8%, Japan 3.1%.

Nearly half of Claude’s India usage comes from technical work—coding, math tasks, building apps, upgrading legacy systems, and deploying production software—indicating strong engineering activity by Indian developers.

Anthropic is prioritizing language capabilities with a six-month push to improve performance in ten Indian languages, supported by enhanced data and ongoing evaluation with partners for tasks in agriculture and law.

Anthropic contributed Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation; India’s MCP server initiative, backed by Bharat Digital, enables government access to national statistics, with practical use like Claude-powered ordering and reservations at Swiggy.

Irina Ghose will lead Anthropic India, with Bengaluru as a base and a plan to hire locally to deepen applied AI work for enterprises, digital-native firms, and startups building Claude-based solutions for India.

Ghose’s leadership will guide a local team and expand Anthropic’s footprint across the Indian market.

Claude has been integrated into Razorpay’s risk systems, while startups Enterpret and Emergent are using Claude to power AI assistants and scale operations, with Emergent reporting $25 million in annual recurring revenue.

India’s Claude revenue run rate has doubled since the October 2025 expansion, driven by large enterprises, digital-first companies, and startups adopting Claude at scale.

India now accounts for nearly half of Claude’s usage for computer and mathematical tasks, underscoring its central role in Claude’s global growth.

Notable deployments include Air India using Claude Code for faster software delivery and Cognizant rolling out Claude to 350,000 employees for modernization and AI adoption, along with broader enterprise and startup integrations.

India is positioned as a testing ground and key partner in AI innovation due to its large developer base, robust digital infrastructure, and linguistic diversity, attracting players like Anthropic and others.