Anthropic doubles India revenue in 4 months as it opens Bengaluru office with Air India partnership

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Anthropic officially opened its first India office in Bengaluru, marking a significant expansion as the country becomes Claude AI's second-largest market globally. The AI startup's revenue run-rate in India has doubled since October 2025, driven by partnerships with Air India and Cognizant, which is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees worldwide.

Anthropic India Expansion Accelerates with Bengaluru Office Opening

Anthropic officially inaugurated its first India office in Bengaluru on Monday, cementing the country's position as the second-largest market for Claude AI after the United States

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. The move comes as CEO Dario Amodei revealed that the company's revenue run-rate growth in India has doubled over the last four months since announcing its expansion in October 2025

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. Speaking at the company's Builder Summit in Bengaluru, Amodei noted that Claude Code for developers may have grown even faster, highlighting the "extreme" AI adoption rate compared to the rest of the world

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Source: PYMNTS

Source: PYMNTS

Partnerships with Air India and Cognizant Drive Enterprise AI Market Growth

The AI startup announced strategic partnerships with Air India and Cognizant to accelerate artificial intelligence deployment across India's enterprise landscape

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. Air India is leveraging Claude Code to create custom software faster and integrate agentic AI across the carrier's operations, while Cognizant is deploying the agent to 350,000 employees globally to modernize legacy systems

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. Razorpay has integrated Claude AI into risk systems and decision-making processes throughout the company, while Emergent AI, a platform built solely using Claude, achieved $25 million in annual recurring revenue and two million users in under five months

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. These partnerships underscore India's role in shaping the enterprise AI market, particularly in software engineering and legacy system modernization.

Source: Seeking Alpha

Source: Seeking Alpha

Technical Intensity Sets India Apart in Global AI Race

Nearly half of Claude usage in India comprises computer and mathematical tasks, with developers building applications and shipping production software at unprecedented scale

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. "India's adoption is even more extreme compared with the rest of the world," said Amodei, who noted the ability to "do experiments with hundreds of millions of people"

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. The technical intensity of Claude usage in India is particularly high, with applications spanning education, legal, farming, and healthcare sectors

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. Amodei cited examples like the Ministry of Statistics building a server to query economic data, noting that government bodies elsewhere typically don't move this fast with emerging technology

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Source: ET

Source: ET

AI Models for Indic Languages and Local Market Challenges

Anthropicis addressing a critical gap in generative AI by cultivating training data using 10 of the most widely spoken Indic languages

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. The company is partnering with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluations testing performance on locally relevant tasks across agriculture and law, with participation from domain experts at Digital Green and Adalat AI

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. This work aims to improve future models for over a billion people who speak upwards of a dozen officially recognized languages in India. Irina Ghose, Managing Director of India for Anthropic, emphasized that India's "extraordinary technical talent, digital infrastructure at scale, and proven track record of using technology to improve people's lives" creates the foundation needed to bring responsible AI benefits to more people

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Impact on IT Services Industry Amid Global AI Concerns

The Bengaluru office opening coincides with turbulence in India's $283 billion IT services industry, which has shed more than $47 billion in market cap in February alone

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. The launch of Claude Cowork in January, an AI agent that automates tasks for white-collar workers, triggered a global selloff in software stocks and intensified concerns about generative AI's impact on enterprise sales

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. Amodei's visit to India for the India AI Impact Summit comes as the Amazon-backed and Alphabet-backed AI startup raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation last week

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. The company's global revenue run-rate has surged from $9 billion last year to $14 billion, positioning Anthropic as a key player in the enterprise AI market alongside competitors like OpenAI

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. Located at Embassy Golf Links Business Park, the new office will oversee partnerships and is actively hiring local talent across various roles

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