NEW DELHI (Feb 19, 2026) — At the India AI Impact Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei officially announced the company’s strategic expansion into India, headlined by the opening of a new office in Bengaluru and the appointment of Irina Ghose as Managing Director for Anthropic India.
Leadership & Vision
Irina Ghose, a veteran with over three decades of experience and the former MD of Microsoft India, will spearhead Anthropic’s operations in its second-largest global market.
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The Goal: Focus on “applied AI,” prioritizing trust, safety, and long-term societal impact across India’s diverse sectors.
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Cognitive Milestone: Amodei noted that AI is on an “exponential curve,” predicting that models could surpass human cognitive abilities in most tasks within a few years—a state he described as a “country of geniuses in a data center.”
Strategic Partnerships
Anthropic is doubling down on localized solutions and enterprise integration:
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Corporate Alliances: New partnerships were announced with major Indian firms, including Infosys, to build specialized AI agents for regulated industries.
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Social Impact: Collaborations with nonprofits like Pratham and the Central Square Foundation are underway to deploy AI in education and agriculture, specifically targeting rural and underserved communities.
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Technical Focus: India ranks second globally in usage of Claude, Anthropic’s flagship AI, with a significant portion of that activity dedicated to complex programming and mathematical tasks.
Localized Innovation
The Bengaluru hub will also focus on enhancing Claude’s Indic language support, aiming to provide high-performance AI in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and nearly a dozen other regional languages to ensure inclusive access.
