Overview
- Irina Ghose, who spent about 24 years at Microsoft and most recently served as Microsoft India managing director, has been appointed Managing Director for Anthropic in India.
- Anthropic will open a Bengaluru office in February, with CEO Dario Amodei and senior executives set to inaugurate the site and take part in the India AI Impact Summit.
- India is Anthropic’s second‑largest market for Claude.ai, and company data shows local usage skews heavily toward computer and mathematical tasks.
- The company says it will hire locally and deepen work with enterprises, policymakers, academic institutions, and developers to apply AI in areas such as education, agriculture, and healthcare.
- Earlier talks with Reliance to broaden access to Claude were reported, though Reliance later partnered with Google for Gemini access, highlighting intense distribution competition in India.