Anthropic opens Seoul office and announces Korean enterprise partnerships including NAVER, Samsung SDS, and LG CNS
Anthropic has opened a physical office in Seoul, led by Representative Director KiYoung Choi, and announced a wave of enterprise and startup partnerships across the Korean AI ecosystem. Major deployments include NAVER rolling out Claude Code to its entire engineering organization, Samsung SDS deploying Claude across Samsung Electronics, and LG CNS rolling out Claude to thousands of employees across LG Group. Anthropic also announced a research partnership with the National AI Research Lab (NAIRL) consortium spanning KAIST, Korea University, Yonsei University, and POSTECH, providing Claude access to up to 60 affiliated researchers focused on safety and alignment.
Related guides (4)
Related events (8)
Anthropic Opens Seoul Office as Third Asia-Pacific Location, Citing 10x Regional Revenue Growth
Anthropic announced plans to open a Seoul office in early 2026, its third in Asia-Pacific following Tokyo and Bengaluru, driven by over 10x run-rate revenue growth in the region over the past year. Korea ranks in the top five globally for Claude usage both in total and per capita, with Claude Code weekly active users in Korea growing 6x in four months. Enterprise deployments include SK Telecom's AI customer service model and Law&Company's legal assistant. Large business accounts (>$100K ARR) in Asia-Pacific have grown 8x year-over-year.
Anthropic appoints KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea ahead of Seoul office opening
Anthropic has named KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea, ahead of opening a Seoul office. Choi joins from Snowflake and brings over 30 years of technology leadership across Korea and Asia-Pacific, including prior roles at Google Cloud, Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft. Korea is cited as a high-engagement market for Claude, with usage running 3.5x above population-expected rates. Existing Korean enterprise customers include SK Telecom and Law&Company.
Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India
Anthropic has officially opened a Bengaluru office and announced a broad set of partnerships spanning enterprise, education, agriculture, and public sector in India, its second-largest Claude.ai market. The company reports run-rate revenue in India has doubled since October 2025, with enterprise deployments including Air India, CRED, Cognizant (350,000 employees), and Razorpay. Anthropic is also investing in Indic language model improvements across 10 languages and building publicly available evaluations for locally relevant tasks in partnership with Karya, the Collective Intelligence Project, and domain-expert nonprofits.
Anthropic Opens Tokyo Office, Signs AI Safety MoC with Japan AI Safety Institute
Anthropic has officially opened its first Asia-Pacific office in Tokyo, with CEO Dario Amodei meeting Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi and signing a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Japan AI Safety Institute to collaborate on AI evaluation methodologies. The company also joined the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group and hosted a Builder Summit for 150+ startups. Japanese enterprise deployments of Claude are highlighted across Rakuten, Nomura Research Institute, Panasonic, and Classmethod, with Anthropic reporting 10x run-rate revenue growth in Asia-Pacific over the past year. Expansion to Seoul and Bengaluru is planned for coming months.
Anthropic Forms New Enterprise AI Services Company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs
Anthropic has announced the formation of a new AI services company co-founded with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, backed by a consortium including General Atlantic, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital. The firm will deploy Claude into core operations of mid-sized enterprises—community banks, manufacturers, regional health systems—using embedded Applied AI engineers from Anthropic alongside the new company's own engineering staff. The venture extends Anthropic's existing Claude Partner Network (which includes Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC) by targeting a market segment that lacks in-house resources for frontier AI deployments. This represents a significant structural move by Anthropic to capture enterprise deployment revenue through a dedicated services vehicle rather than purely through API licensing.
Accenture and Anthropic Launch Multi-Year Partnership to Scale Enterprise Claude Deployment
Anthropic and Accenture have announced a major partnership expansion forming the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, a dedicated practice with approximately 30,000 professionals trained on Claude. The partnership includes a joint CIO-focused product centered on Claude Code—claimed to hold over half the AI coding market—and industry-specific offerings for financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and public sector. Anthropic reports its enterprise market share has grown from 24% to 40%, with this described as its largest-ever deployment of Claude Code.
SK Telecom invests $100M in Anthropic and partners to build telco-optimized Claude
Anthropic announced a strategic partnership and $100M investment from SK Telecom (SKT), South Korea's largest mobile operator. The two companies will co-develop a fine-tuned version of Claude optimized for telecommunications use cases including customer service, marketing, and sales, with multilingual support for Korean, English, Japanese, and Spanish. SKT domain experts will provide feedback to guide Claude's fine-tuning on telco-specific tasks, and the partnership follows an earlier investment from SK Telecom Venture Capital.
Anthropic Appoints Irina Ghose as Managing Director of India, Opens Bengaluru Office
Anthropic has hired Irina Ghose, former Managing Director of Microsoft India, as its Managing Director of India ahead of opening its first Indian office in Bengaluru. The appointment signals Anthropic's formal expansion into the Indian market, where India is already the second-largest market globally for Claude.ai. Anthropic's Economic Index data shows Indian Claude.ai users concentrate heavily on technical and mathematical tasks, with nearly half of usage in that category. The India team will engage policymakers, academic institutions, developers, and enterprise partners.