Anthropic's revenue run-rate doubled in India in 4 months, says CEO Amodei

By Haripriya Suresh and Deborah Mary Sophia

BENGALURU, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Anthropic's gross run-rate successful India has doubled successful 4 months, main enforcement serviceman Dario Amodei ‌said connected Monday, underscoring the accelerated adoption of the AI startup's Claude ‌coding merchandise successful the country.

Anthropic, which announced its India enlargement successful October 2025 and opened its Bengaluru bureau ​on Monday, said the world's astir populous state is the largest marketplace for its Claude AI exemplary aft the United States.

"Anthropic's concern run-rate gross wrong India has doubled implicit the past 4 months, and Claude Code whitethorn person adjacent grown faster," said Amodei astatine the ‌firm's Builder Summit successful Bengaluru, ⁠without disclosing specifics.

The Amazon and Alphabet-backed startup raised $30 cardinal successful a backing circular past week that valued the AI steadfast astatine $380 billion.

Anthropic has ⁠leaned heavy into the endeavor AI market, aft Claude Code received beardown reception from developers since it was made mostly disposable past May. The institution launched Claude Cowork, an AI cause ​that helps ​execute machine tasks for white-collar workers, past ​month.

A plug-in for Claude Cowork released ‌in January to automate tasks triggered a planetary selloff successful bundle stocks, intensifying concerns that accelerated adoption of generative AI could upend India's $283 cardinal IT services industry. So acold successful February, the country's bundle exporter stocks person shed much than $47 cardinal successful marketplace cap.

Amodei said the "technical intensity" of Claude usage successful India is high.

"Claude has ever skewed a ‌little spot much towards the benignant of productivity ​and nonrecreational (workloads), and that's adjacent much truthful present successful ​India," helium said.

Anthropic besides touted respective ​partnerships with companies successful India. Air India is leaning connected Claude ‌Code to propulsion customized bundle faster and ​integrate agentic AI crossed ​the carrier's operations, portion IT large Cognizant is deploying Claude to modernize bequest tech systems.

The institution besides announced respective tie-ups with Indian startups crossed the legal, ​education, healthcare and agriculture sectors. ‌The announcements travel up of Amodei's quality astatine the India AI Impact ​Summit this week.

(Reporting by Haripriya Suresh and Deborah Sophia successful Bengaluru, further reporting ​by Nandan Mandayam; Editing by Ronojoy Mazumdar)