Anthropic CEO Flags Surging India Adoption as Claude Revenue Run Rate Doubles in Four Months

Anthropic’s India business has recorded a sharp surge in demand, with the company’s revenue run rate doubling over the past four months, CEO Dario Amodei said on Monday, underscoring what he described as the “striking” technical intensity of Claude’s usage among Indian developers and enterprises.

Speaking at the company’s Builder Summit in Bengaluru, Amodei said adoption of Claude Code, Anthropic’s developer-focused coding assistant, appears to have grown even faster than overall revenue, reflecting India’s rapid embrace of AI tools for software development and workflow automation.

“It’s incredible to see the pace at which things are happening. It mirrors the broader explosion in Claude models and coding models globally, but the intensity in India feels even more extreme than what we’re seeing elsewhere,” Amodei said.

A revenue run rate estimates a company’s annualised revenue based on its current monthly or quarterly performance and is often used as a forward-looking indicator of growth momentum.

India’s Scale as a Testing Ground

Amodei highlighted India’s scale as a key factor driving rapid experimentation and adoption.
“We can run experiments here involving hundreds of millions of people. That scale allows entrepreneurs and builders to learn incredibly fast and fail fast,” he said, noting that such real-world testing is harder to replicate in smaller markets.

On Monday, Anthropic also officially opened its new office in Bengaluru, marking a deeper commitment to India as a strategic hub for engineering talent, developer engagement and enterprise partnerships.

Push for End-to-End AI Automation

In a message to Indian developers, Amodei urged companies to think beyond narrow, incremental automation and instead aim for more ambitious AI-led transformation.
“Don’t just automate step four of a 10-step workflow. Try to automate the whole workflow, even if the model isn’t fully capable yet,” he said, advocating an iterative approach to building AI-native systems.

Enterprise AI and Coexisting With Models

In a conversation with Irina Ghose, Managing Director of Anthropic India, Amodei discussed the growing role of enterprise AI globally, the evolution of coding models, and how organisations can learn to coexist productively with increasingly capable AI systems.

Industry observers say the rapid growth in India reflects a broader trend of enterprises and startups integrating generative AI into software development, customer support, analytics and operational workflows, driven by a large developer base and rising cloud adoption.

With competition among AI model providers intensifying, Anthropic’s expanding footprint in Bengaluru signals the company’s intent to position India as a core market — not just for scale, but as a crucible for real-world AI deployment and innovation.