Anthropic has announced a significant expansion in India, bringing in-country inference for Claude via Amazon Bedrock and revealing a host of new partnerships with Indian enterprises, startups, and nonprofits. The move addresses a top request from Indian organizations for local data processing, enabling them to deploy Claude while meeting strict data residency requirements.
Claude Goes Local: In-Country Inference via Amazon Bedrock
In the coming weeks, Claude will be available with in-country inference in India through Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s platform for building generative AI applications. Requests sent to Claude through the India endpoint will be processed on servers within India, giving banks, insurers, public agencies, and other highly regulated institutions the certainty they need to handle sensitive customer data. This control is pivotal for organizations moving from AI pilots to full-scale deployment.
“We are glad to see partners like Anthropic and AWS bringing in-country inference to India. Access to trusted, frontier AI closer to home is a positive step for the ecosystem as we all explore how these technologies can responsibly serve customers,” said Ashok Vaswani, Managing Director & CEO of Kotak Bank.
Claude deployments through Amazon Bedrock also include audit trails and access controls that meet the requirements of risk and compliance teams, ensuring a secure path to production.
Building Momentum Across Indian Enterprises and Startups
Anthropic’s presence in India has grown rapidly since its Bengaluru office opened in February. The local team now provides applied AI expertise to enterprises, digital natives, and startups. Major Indian companies are adopting Claude for diverse use cases:
- Axis Bank leverages Claude for engineering excellence and employee productivity.
- NPCI is building AiNxt, its agentic AI platform, with Claude.
- IndusInd Bank uses Claude to create an AI-enabled enterprise knowledge platform.
- Godrej Industries runs Claude across internal app development and business analysis.
IT services leaders are also integrating Claude into their offerings. TCS is equipping 50,000 associates with Claude, Infosys is combining Claude with Infosys Topaz™ and establishing a dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence, and Cognizant uses Claude in systems for manufacturing, life sciences, and insurance. LTM & LTTS are embedding Claude and Claude Code into their platforms.
Digital natives are embedding Claude in consumer products: Swiggy uses MCP to make flagship services reachable, Instamart now offers natural-language shopping for 40,000+ products, Zoho equips customers with Claude models, and Invideo delivers precise quality across 190 nations.
Startups like Rocket, Atlan, Cred, Zamp.ai, and Freshworks are building with Claude to accelerate development and enhance productivity.
Partnerships Driving Scale and Innovation
Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network has seen high registration numbers in India, with many partners achieving Global Premier, Preferred, and Select tiers. This week, Bengaluru hosts the first Claude Certification for Partners, aiming to certify 5,000 people.
Advancing Beneficial Deployments and Social Impact
Anthropic’s AI for Science program supports researchers across India, including the Evolutionary Venomics Lab at IISc, which uses Claude to annotate venom data, and PopVax, which employs Claude in protein-design models for vaccines and cancer treatments. Nonprofits like Pratham, Agami, Civis, and Digital Green are using Claude to improve education, justice, civic tech, and agriculture.
Strengthening Cybersecurity and Public Trust
Indian organizations are also using Claude to bolster cyber defenses. The Data Security Council of India has a Claude-powered AI testing sandbox, while MOSIP—the open-source platform behind national digital ID systems—uses Claude to secure code. OpenG2P leverages Claude for secure citizen benefit delivery.
Commitment to Indian Languages and Responsible AI
Six months after signing the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments, Anthropic is making progress on improving Claude’s performance in Indian languages. A pilot with Karya evaluated Claude across seven languages in agriculture, helping identify linguistic and cultural nuances that automated evaluations miss.
With in-country inference, Anthropic is set to deepen its work in India, opening doors for deployments where data must remain in the country.