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Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, said on Monday that India stands out globally for the depth and sophistication of its use of the company’s AI models, adding that Anthropic’s annualised revenue in the country has doubled over the past four months, largely fuelled by strong developer adoption.

Anthropic develops the Claude family of artificial intelligence assistant models, named after information theory pioneer Claude Shannon.

Speaking at a fireside chat during the Anthropic Builder Summit in Bengaluru, Amodei interacted with Aruna Rao before an audience of around 250 developers and builders. The company also marked the launch of its first Indian office in Bengaluru.

Amodei noted that while Claude sees a mix of consumer and professional usage globally, India demonstrates a particularly high concentration of technical and API-driven engagement. A large and active developer base is working directly with Claude’s API and coding tools, he said, contributing to rapid growth in the company’s India business. According to him, usage of Claude’s coding capabilities may be expanding even faster than overall revenue.

He described the pace of growth in India as remarkable, stating that the surge mirrors global trends around Claude and AI-powered coding tools but is even more pronounced in the Indian market.

Amodei also praised India’s startup culture, engineering talent and market dynamism, saying the country’s drive to build and experiment surpasses what he has seen elsewhere. As an example of swift institutional adoption, he referred to the Ministry of Statistics developing an MCP server to access economic data, observing that public-sector bodies in many other countries typically move more slowly.

Emphasising India’s large population as a strategic advantage, he said the scale enables companies to test products across hundreds of millions of users, accelerating learning cycles and allowing entrepreneurs to iterate quickly.

Looking ahead, Amodei suggested that India could play a major role in shaping global AI applications. He highlighted opportunities in multilingual tools tailored to the country’s linguistic diversity, nonprofit initiatives such as Adalat AI for legal case queries, partnerships with organisations like the Xstep Foundation to strengthen digital infrastructure, and AI-driven solutions to support small farmers with productivity insights.

He encouraged businesses worldwide to anticipate where AI capabilities are headed rather than limiting themselves to current constraints. Instead of building tools for a small segment of a larger workflow, he advised companies to design systems that aim to handle entire processes, even if present-day models are still evolving.

Drawing on ideas from his essays “Adolescence of AI” and “Machines of Loving Grace,” Amodei stressed the importance of responsible innovation, cautioning that AI’s rapid advancement brings both transformative potential and risks of misuse. He called on companies and users to prioritise democratic values, economic inclusion, healthcare improvements and long-term societal benefits over short-term, attention-driven products.

Addressing the developers in attendance, he expressed optimism about breakthroughs in science, medicine, biology, full-stack software development, finance and legal services. He suggested that AI systems could enable people to act as supervisors of powerful digital agents, significantly amplifying human productivity.

The discussion reinforced India’s growing influence in the global AI ecosystem, with Amodei urging builders to channel the country’s energy and expertise toward responsible and broadly beneficial innovation.

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Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers and executives, Anthropic is best known for its Claude series of AI models.