According to reports from Business Standard, Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude AI models will be available with in-country inference in India through Amazon Bedrock in the coming weeks. This expansion targets enterprises and government entities that require their data to be accessed locally, addressing growing demand from Indian organisations for locally accessible AI solutions. The move was specifically undertaken to help organisations ensure that sensitive information from them does not leave the country while using Claude's AI services, with the firm using Amazon Bedrock to process requests from Indian users domestically using the latter's servers in India. As per Anthropic's statement, India is one of the largest markets for Claude, home to a developer community doing technically complex AI work. The company named India as one of the company's largest markets globally, with the firm also announcing enterprise partnerships along with plans to consolidate its partner ecosystem in India.
As reported by Business Standard, running Claude inference in-country provides Indian organisations with the certainty needed to serve customers in highly regulated sectors. The move particularly benefits banks, insurers, and public and government agencies that control data for a billion people, enabling AI deployment beyond pilot phases into critical systems. Claude deployments through Amazon Bedrock include audit trails and access controls that risk and compliance teams require before production deployment. According to Irina Ghose, managing director, India at Anthropic, the local inference capabilities would aid enterprises to expand outside of AI pilot projects by making sure that sensitive information stays inside India. As per Sandeep Dutta, President, AWS India and South Asia, India is at an inflection point in its AI journey, with institutions from banks to government agencies ready to harness frontier AI at scale. The capability, which allows AI models to process user prompts and generate responses on servers physically located within India, ensures enterprise data remains within national borders while reducing latency and helping organisations comply with data residency requirements.
According to Anthropic's statement reported by Business Standard, India is one of the largest markets for Claude, home to a developer community doing technically complex AI work. Anthropic named India as one of the company's largest markets globally, with the firm also announcing enterprise partnerships along with plans to consolidate its partner ecosystem in India. The company stated that India was one of the countries with the highest registrations for its Claude Partner Network, with plans to certify 5,000 people via the partner ecosystem. Ghose described bringing Claude inference to India as a turning point for enterprise AI in the country, highlighting that India's banks, insurers, telecom companies, and public agencies steward data for a billion people, making local AI deployment crucial for scaling AI adoption. As per Anthropic, India now accounts for an estimated 5.8% to 7.2% of Claude's global usage, making it Anthropic's second-largest market after the US. The company has also introduced rupee-denominated pricing for Claude subscriptions in India earlier in July, allowing users to pay in INR instead of USD as it deepens its presence in the country.
As reported by Business Standard, Anthropic has been expanding its presence in India since opening its Bengaluru office in February 2026. Major enterprises deploying Claude include Axis Bank for engineering excellence and productivity, NPCI for building AI agentic AI platform AiNxt, IndusInd Bank for AI-enabled enterprise knowledge platform, and Godrej Industries across internal applications. The company's Claude Partner Network launched in March 2026 recorded highest registration numbers in India globally, with growing Indian partners in Global Premier, Preferred, and Select tiers. According to Ghose, Anthropic is also expanding its team within the country and upgrading Claude's proficiencies and functions in Indian languages. IT services giants TCS and Infosys are embedding Claude into enterprise AI offerings, with TCS equipping 50,000 associates with the model and Infosys integrating it with its Topaz platform while setting up an Anthropic Centre of Excellence. The company is holding its first Claude Certification for Partners in Bengaluru this week, aiming to certify 5,000 people across a network that will deliver AI for India and the world.
According to Anthropic's latest announcement, the company is supporting AI for Science program which provides free API credits to researchers across India, including Kartik Sunagar's Evolutionary Venomics Lab at the Indian Institute of Science, which uses Claude to find antivenom targets for a problem killing an estimated 58,000 people a year. The program also supports PopVax, which uses Claude to design vaccine proteins for its tuberculosis, hepatitis C, and Strep A programs. Beyond scientific applications, Pratham has integrated Claude into its Teaching at the Right Level program, sending government teachers a nightly nudge and a chatbot now piloting in 50 villages in Chhattisgarh. Digital Green uses Claude to verify the farming advice its FarmerChat gave more than a million farmers in six languages last year. In cybersecurity, the Data Security Council of India operates a Claude-based testing sandbox giving members across critical sectors a shared environment to test codebases and supply chains. As per Anthropic, the company is making steady progress six months after signing the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments, including a company-wide effort to improve Claude's performance in India's most widely spoken languages through partnerships like Karya. An initial pilot focused on agricultural use cases and examined issues that automated evaluations may fail to identify.
