Anthropic, a rising AI startup, has revealed plans to expand its global team, and that includes India. According to reports, Anthropic aims to triple its international workforce and grow its applied AI team fivefold this year. Nearly 80% of usage for its key product, Claude AI, now comes from outside the U.S. India is already Anthropic’s second-largest market, accounting for about 7.2% of usage.
India is special in Anthropic’s plans. The company wants to hire a country lead for India. That person will guide how Anthropic works in India, helping with partnerships, regulation, and local hires. With the new plan, more engineers, product managers, researchers, and support staff may come to India. The goal is to make services faster, more relevant, and more trusted for Indian users.
Anthropic is scaling faster than even its leadership expected, with strong demand across sectors like life sciences and wealth management. In a recent conversation with CNBC, Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith said the company’s global presence is growing rapidly despite having had only a limited human footprint in regions such as Europe and Japan until recently.
Smith also outlined the company’s hiring spree across key regions, including India, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Singapore, alongside its existing growth in the UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The company is opening its first Asia office in Tokyo and expanding in Europe, with over 100 new roles in London and Dublin and a research-focused hub planned in Zurich.
Leading this push is Chris Ciauri, Anthropic’s new Managing Director of International, who previously scaled revenues at Google Cloud and Salesforce. He noted that even governments, including members of the G20, are approaching Anthropic for solutions that can enable citizens at scale, signaling just how central AI is becoming to both public and private sectors worldwide.
As part of this expansion, Anthropic plans to increase its applied AI team fivefold. This group works on real-world integration of Claude into enterprise workflows, building APIs, compliance solutions, and safety guardrails. Applied AI has become critical for businesses looking beyond experimentation and into production-grade use cases. By investing heavily in this area, Anthropic is sending a clear message that its growth will not only come from research breakthroughs but also from reliable delivery of enterprise AI platforms.
The expansion is backed by strong investor confidence. Anthropic has raised more than $7.3 billion to date from a roster of leading global players. Amazon has pledged up to $4 billion, integrating Claude into AWS services. Google has invested $2 billion while also offering Anthropic access to its TPU infrastructure.
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