Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: India's 'technical intensity' in Claude usage stands out globally

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

• India is Claude AI's second largest market for productivity.
• Anthropic opened its first India office in Bengaluru
• Claude AI is prioritizing support for multiple Indian languages

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei highlighted India’s 'technical intensity' on February 16, noting that the country’s use of the AI assistant Claude stands out globally.

"We've always seen a mixture of casual consumer, prosumer, and developer use. Claude has always skewed toward productivity and professional tasks. But I think that's even more so here in India," Amodei said at a company event in Bengaluru.

India is the second largest market for Claude AI assistant. Nearly half of Claude usage in India comprises computer and mathematical tasks like building applications, modernizing systems, and shipping production software.

Amodei noted that Anthropic's India revenue run rate has doubled over the last four months since his last visit. Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool for developers, is growing even faster, he said. However, he didn't disclose any specific figures.

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. Claude Code’s revenue run rate has grown to over $2.5 billion.

"It's just incredible to see the rate at which things are happening. It mirrors the general progress and explosion in Claude models and coding models. But I think it's even more extreme in India than we've seen in other places in the world," Amodei said.

Anthropic opened its first India office in the country's tech capital Bengaluru on February 16. The office will be situated in Bengaluru's Embassy Golf Links region. Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India veteran, was roped in to lead the company's operations last month.

Anthropic's move comes as it 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.

In an interview to Moneycontrol, India MD Ghose said that Anthropic is hiring across various functions including sales, policy, partnerships, and applied AI engineering in the country.

"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.

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.

Anthropic is partnering with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to develop evaluations for locally relevant tasks. These tests, spanning domains like agriculture and law, are being built alongside experts from Indian nonprofits including Digital Green and Adalat AI.

"This work will inform how we improve future models for speakers of Indic languages and for use cases important to India and the businesses that use Claude," the company stated.

Last week, Anthropic raised $30 billion funding at a valuation of $380 billion, more than double of its previous valuation of $183 billion.