India Secures Position as Second-Largest Global Market for Claude AI
India has achieved a significant milestone by emerging as the second-largest market for Claude, the advanced artificial intelligence system developed by Anthropic. This development underscores the country's rapidly expanding AI ecosystem and its technically sophisticated developer community, which is increasingly leveraging cutting-edge AI tools for complex applications.
Deep Engineering Engagement Across Indian Market
Nearly half of all Claude usage in India is concentrated on computer and mathematical tasks, demonstrating substantial engineering engagement across the market. Indian developers are actively utilizing the platform for building sophisticated applications, modernizing legacy systems, and deploying production-grade software solutions that meet international standards.
Anthropic has established its official presence in India with the opening of a Bengaluru office, signaling the company's commitment to the region's growing importance in the global AI landscape. This strategic move positions Anthropic to better serve the Indian market and collaborate with local talent.
Anthropic's Vision for Responsible AI in India
"India represents one of the world's most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises," stated Irina Ghose, managing director of India at Anthropic. "Already, it's 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."
Addressing India's Multilingual AI Challenge
India's linguistic diversity presents both opportunity and challenge for AI development. With over a billion people speaking more than a dozen officially recognized languages, AI models have historically demonstrated stronger performance in English than in many Indic languages.
To address this disparity, Anthropic launched a comprehensive company-wide initiative six months ago focused on curating higher-quality, more representative training data across ten of India's most widely spoken languages:
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Marathi
- Telugu
- Tamil
- Punjabi
- Gujarati
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Urdu
This focused effort has already yielded measurable improvements in model fluency, with ongoing work dedicated to further enhancing multilingual performance across these critical Indian languages.
Developing Rigorous Evaluation Benchmarks for Indian Contexts
Anthropic is now collaborating with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to develop comprehensive evaluation benchmarks that test model performance on locally relevant tasks. These evaluations span multiple domains including agriculture and law, and are being designed in partnership with domain experts from leading Indian nonprofits such as Digital Green and Adalat AI.
The evaluations will assess real-world utility in specifically Indian contexts and are expected to inform future model improvements for Indic language speakers and sector-specific applications. This approach ensures that AI development remains responsive to India's unique needs and challenges while maintaining global standards of excellence.
India's ascent as a major AI market reflects broader trends in the country's technological evolution, with Claude's growing adoption serving as a testament to both the sophistication of Indian developers and the strategic importance of the Indian market in the global AI landscape.
