Anthropic AI to set up India office in early 2026 amid tie-up talks with Reliance

Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly planning to meet with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani during his trip to India this week.

Updated on: Oct 8, 2025, 10:45:33 IST

By Tushar Deep Singh

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Anthropic AI plans to open its first office in India by early next year and is reportedly in talks with Reliance Industries Ltd., as part of moves to deepen presence in its largest market outside of the US.

Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani are likely to meet in Mumbai this week. (AP/PTI)

“Bengaluru will serve as our second office in Asia Pacific after Tokyo, which will open in the coming months,” the San Francisco-based company said on its website on Wednesday. “This expansion will help us serve India's rapidly growing AI ecosystem and reflects the increasing international demand we are seeing for Claude.”

Claude is a generative AI model and chatbot developed by Anthropic, similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini.

Anthropic AI's announcement to open an India office by early 2026 comes a day after TechCrunch reported that the AI company is in talks with Reliance Industries Ltd. for a potential partnership to expand Claude AI in India.

Dario Amodei, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic AI, is visiting India this week “to meet with public officials and enterprise partners”. That, according to TechCrunch, includes a meeting with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani.

“India is compelling because of the scale of its technical talent and the commitment from the Indian government to ensure the benefits of artificial intelligence reach all areas of society, not just concentrated pockets,” Amodei was quoted as saying in the Anthropic AI blogpost.

“India's AI ecosystem will play a central role in how AI develops globally and democratically, and we're looking forward to working with organisation in India to pave a path for how beneficial AI can be scaled in a way that serves everyone.”

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Tushar Deep Singh
Tushar Deep Singh is a business journalist and digital editorial leader with 12 years of experience in financial journalism. Currently Assistant Editor at Hindustan Times, he is building the HT Business vertical and managing the newsletters for both Livemint and HT. When not in the newsroom, he can be found on a motorcycle. Throughout his career, Tushar has been instrumental in scaling digital publishing operations at some of India’s largest financial news websites. His six-year tenure at Mint—the first job—saw him plunge into online media to deliver record-breaking digital engagement for Livemint.com, including 7.2 million page views on 2017 UP Election Results day. He held fort at Livemint during a senior-level leadership transition later that year. That won him the HT Media Star Award (Bronze) in 2017 and a Certificate of Appreciation for Editorial Excellence in 2018. As the head of the digital desk at ETtech, he curated two daily, full-stack newsletters from an editorial as well as product perspective. At NDTV Profit, he transitioned from website editor to principal correspondent, reporting on the auto sector for the TV channel and website, thereby adding yet another layer to his editorial expertise. He is a post-graduate in journalism from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, and a graduate from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad.Read More

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