BENGALURU: Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss India’s role in advancing responsible and beneficial AI, days after the company announced plans to open a Bengaluru office in early 2026.
Amodei said India’s rapid AI adoption and technical depth make it central to the global trajectory of the technology. “Prime Minister Modi has set an ambitious vision for India’s AI future, one that balances innovation with responsibility and ensures technology serves all of India’s people,” he said in a post on X after the meeting. “How India deploys AI across critical sectors like education, healthcare, and agriculture for over a billion people will be essential in shaping the future of AI.”
He added that usage of Claude Code , Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, has risen fivefold in India since June, underscoring the country’s growing base of developers using AI for technical and software tasks. Amodei described India as one of the company’s fastest-expanding markets globally.
The meeting capped a week-long visit during which Anthropic held its first India Developers Day in Bengaluru, co-hosted with venture-capital firm Accel. At the event, senior executives said India now ranks as the second-largest market for Claude globally, behind the US, with more than half its usage in the country being technical, from user-interface design to code debugging and software development.
Anthropic’s upcoming Bengaluru office will anchor its presence in the Indo-Pacific region and focus on building local AI models and tools for Indian enterprises and startups. “We’re not entering a new market but deepening a relationship in a market we’re already in,” Anthropic’s Head of EMEA Guillaume Princen told developers at the event.
In its statement earlier this week, Anthropic said it plans to work with Indian partners across education, healthcare, and agriculture, while also investing in local talent and Indic-language AI capabilities. The company’s expansion, it said, aligns with its mission to build responsible AI systems that deliver social and economic benefit.
Amodei said India’s rapid AI adoption and technical depth make it central to the global trajectory of the technology. “Prime Minister Modi has set an ambitious vision for India’s AI future, one that balances innovation with responsibility and ensures technology serves all of India’s people,” he said in a post on X after the meeting. “How India deploys AI across critical sectors like education, healthcare, and agriculture for over a billion people will be essential in shaping the future of AI.”
He added that usage of Claude Code , Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, has risen fivefold in India since June, underscoring the country’s growing base of developers using AI for technical and software tasks. Amodei described India as one of the company’s fastest-expanding markets globally.
The meeting capped a week-long visit during which Anthropic held its first India Developers Day in Bengaluru, co-hosted with venture-capital firm Accel. At the event, senior executives said India now ranks as the second-largest market for Claude globally, behind the US, with more than half its usage in the country being technical, from user-interface design to code debugging and software development.
Anthropic’s upcoming Bengaluru office will anchor its presence in the Indo-Pacific region and focus on building local AI models and tools for Indian enterprises and startups. “We’re not entering a new market but deepening a relationship in a market we’re already in,” Anthropic’s Head of EMEA Guillaume Princen told developers at the event.
In its statement earlier this week, Anthropic said it plans to work with Indian partners across education, healthcare, and agriculture, while also investing in local talent and Indic-language AI capabilities. The company’s expansion, it said, aligns with its mission to build responsible AI systems that deliver social and economic benefit.
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