BENGALURU: Anthropic’s business in India has doubled in just four months, according to its chief executive officer Dario Amodei, who pointed to rapid growth in developer usage and increasing government adoption of artificial intelligence tools.
Speaking at Anthropic’s Builder Summit in Bengaluru, Amodei said, “Anthropic’s business, its run rate revenue within India, has doubled over the last four months since I last visited.” He added that Claude Code “may have grown even faster with this set of developers”.
Amodei said India stands out for the depth of developer engagement. “One of the most unique things about India is maybe the technical intensity of the usage,” he said. While the company globally sees “a mixture of casual consumer use and prosumer and developer use”, he noted that usage in India skews more heavily towards productivity professionals and developers.
Beyond private sector adoption, Amodei also pointed to growing activity within government. He cited the Ministry of Statistics as an example, saying it is building “a kind of MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to query economic data and economic statistics”.
In his view, “government bodies elsewhere don’t move this fast” and added that India’s “entrepreneurial energy and technical acumen is unique”.
He also highlighted India’s scale as a key driver of rapid experimentation. He said the country’s sheer size allows teams to learn very quickly, in ways not possible in smaller markets. He added that the ability of entrepreneurs and builders to learn quickly and fail fast exceeds what he has seen elsewhere.
Looking ahead, Amodei urged companies to build for where artificial intelligence models are heading rather than where they stand today. “You shouldn’t build for where the AI models are now. You should build for where they are in a year or two,” he said. Large enterprises, he noted, should “be imaginative about where the technology is going to go”.
He said some organisations are already deploying models at scale. Within Anthropic, departments such as legal, finance and accounting began using the underlying “agentic engine” behind Claude Code even before newer products were released.
Amodei also pointed to sectors where he expects stronger use of advanced models, including biology, medicine, finance and legal work. In software, he added, models are “starting to do multi-stage workflows”, enabling humans to act as supervisors and “accelerate themselves by a factor of 10x to 100x”.
Describing the current moment as “a very exciting time”, Amodei said there is room for “dozens of startups” across large industries as artificial intelligence systems take on broader, more complex tasks.