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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivered remarks outlining the company’s expanding commitment to India, announcing the opening of a new office in Bengaluru and the appointment of Irina Ghose — a veteran with three decades of business experience in India — as Anthropic’s Managing Director for the region.
Amodei detailed several new partnerships: on the enterprise side, Anthropic is working with Infosys and other major Indian companies; on the nonprofit side, the company has been collaborating for several months with the Step Foundation, Pratham, and Central Square Foundation on digital infrastructure, education, agricultural efficiency, and healthcare. Anthropic is also partnering with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to benchmark Claude’s performance on India’s many regional languages across practical tasks including agriculture, legal work, and educational content.
On policy and economics, Amodei announced Anthropic’s participation in the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments as part of its Anthropic Economic Futures Program, which publishes the Anthropic Economic Index — statistical data on AI’s effects on jobs and the economy. He acknowledged AI’s potential for economic disruption alongside its transformative opportunities — including curing long-intractable diseases and lifting billions out of poverty — and called for coordinated government-industry efforts to manage the transition responsibly across India and the broader Global South.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published February 19, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
