Anthropic India revenue run rate doubled since October; Enterprises key to last-mile AI integration, says Irina Ghose

Anthropic India managing director Irina Ghose

Artificial intelligence (AI) research company Anthropic has seen its revenue run rate in India double since announcing its market expansion in October 2025, India managing director Irina Ghose told Moneycontrol in an interview.

In her first interview after taking charge, Ghose said that India is the second largest market in terms of use of Claude.ai.

"Six percent of the overall conversations are happening from India. A lot of the computing and mathematical usage is coming from the country, and much of it is focused on augmenting developers and others using code, helping them do it better and faster," she noted.

Ghose didn't disclose any further details or specific information on the company's financial performance in the country.

Earlier this week, Anthropic stated that its global run rate has surged to $14 billion, registering a 10-fold increase in each of the past three years.

In September, the company kickstarted an aggressive international expansion with an aim to triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI team fivefold this year to meet the growing demand for its Claude AI models outside the United States.

In October, Anthropic announced plans to open its first India office in the country's tech capital Bengaluru. The office will be situated in Bengaluru's Embassy Golf Links region. Ghose, a former Microsoft India veteran, was roped in to lead the company's operations last month.

"With the India team present here, the entire intent is to work closely with enterprises and ensure they are able to co-build, co-innovate, think towards what they want to do and create together," Ghose said.

She noted that Anthropic is hiring across various functions including sales, policy, partnerships, and applied AI engineering in the country.

Ghose said that work happening here "aligns closely with a partnership model" allowing the company to impact the 'last mile' by working with the country on areas such as education, healthcare, skilling, and agriculture.

Anthropic has previously stated that they are prioritising model training on nearly a dozen Indian languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu.

The company is also investing heavily in advancing the Indic language capabilities of its Claude AI assistant.

These developments come as Anthropic looks to court India's booming AI developer community amid a scramble by tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, all of whom are aggressively rolling out AI models and tools to tap into one of the world's largest developer bases.

When asked about the recent sell-off in the Indian IT stocks due to Claude Cowork, Ghose said the intent is to "complement, coexist (and) build things together".

"A lot of the last mile work will be coming across from the partner ecosystem, from enterprises which are developing it," she said.

Ghose described Cowork plugins as horizontal intelligent application plugins and said enterprises must add the nuance required for specific sectors like stock brokering, banking, or healthcare.

They will have to put across an overall layer to ensure the solution is relevant to their specific field, she said.

Ghose spoke just ahead of the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, CTO Rahul Patil and other members of the leadership team are expected to attend the event.