US-based synthetic intelligence (AI) main, Anthropic, on Tuesday, 16 February 2026, introduced that it’s opening an workplace in Bengaluru, Karnataka, as the corporate is concentrated on its partnerships with Air India, schooling non-profit Pratham, amongst others, amid a wider push in direction of AI.
Within the official submitting, the corporate stated that it’s set to announce additional partnerships in sectors like schooling, agriculture, and enterprise, amongst others, to deepen its AI commitments in India.
“Immediately, as we formally open our Bengaluru workplace, we’re asserting partnerships throughout enterprise, schooling, and agriculture that deepen our dedication to India throughout a spread of sectors,” stated the corporate in its official assertion.
Partnership with Air India, Cognizant, others
Anthropic is supporting Air India with its Claude Code, which helps the airline firm to develop and ship customized software program quicker and at a decrease price amid its broader push to make use of agentic AI throughout operations.
The corporate additionally talked about that utilizing the identical Claude Code expertise, tech large Cognizant is deploying to 350,000 staff globally in an effort to modernise the legacy techniques.
Funds startup CRED additionally reportedly achieved quicker function supply and higher check protection utilizing the AI main’s companies.
“Air India is utilizing Claude Code to assist builders ship customized software program quicker and at decrease price, as a part of a broader push to make use of agentic AI throughout its operations. CRED achieved 2x quicker function supply and 10% higher check protection with Claude Code. And Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 staff globally to modernize legacy techniques, speed up software program growth, and assist AI adoption amongst its enterprise shoppers,” the corporate stated.
Different startups like Razorpay are utilizing the corporate’s synthetic intelligence to combine into its danger techniques, decision-making processes, and operations.
12% of Claude.ai’s use in India
Within the official assertion, Anthropic additionally stated that the schooling non-profit firm Pratham can also be utilizing the AI main’s expertise, as they’ve partnered to deal with security and academic rigour.
“Their Anytime Testing Machine, powered by Claude, is at the moment being piloted with 1,500 college students throughout 20 faculties, with plans to broaden to 100 faculties by the top of 2026,” stated Anthropic in its assertion.
The corporate additionally stated that the academic and educational duties make up 12% of Claude.ai’s use case in India. Anthropic additionally stated that the corporate is collaborating with Central Sq. Basis to make use of EdTech and AI extra successfully to teach youngsters from underserved communities.
“As a part of this collaboration, Anthropic will present technical experience, mentorship, and API credit to organisations creating AI-enabled instruments—together with personalised tutors, instructor teaching options, and assessment-driven instruction—with the objective of reaching extra major faculty college students throughout India,” the AI firm introduced.