Anthropic appoints Hidetoshi Tojo as Head of Japan and announces Tokyo office hiring plans
Anthropic has appointed Hidetoshi Tojo, formerly Japan Country Manager at Snowflake and a veteran of Google Cloud Japan and Microsoft, as its Head of Japan. The company plans to officially open its first Asia office in Tokyo in the coming months and expand local hiring. Existing Japanese enterprise customers include Rakuten, NRI, and Panasonic. The Japan HQ will support partnerships with businesses, policymakers, and platform partners including Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex.
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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 Opens Fourth Asia-Pacific Office in Sydney, Australia
Anthropic is opening a Sydney office as its fourth Asia-Pacific location, joining Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Seoul. The expansion targets enterprise, startup, and research customers in Australia and New Zealand, where Claude ranks 4th and 8th globally in per-capita usage. Anthropic is also exploring compute capacity expansion in Australia to address data residency requirements from enterprises and government agencies, with longer-term infrastructure conversations underway.
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 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.
Anthropic Expands to India, Plans Bengaluru Office in Early 2026
Anthropic announced expansion of global operations to India, with a Bengaluru office planned for early 2026 as its second Asia Pacific location after Tokyo. CEO Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet government officials and enterprise partners, with focus areas including social impact sectors (education, healthcare, agriculture) and India's IT services industry. India ranks second globally in Claude consumer usage, with heavy skew toward technical/programming tasks, and Anthropic plans enhanced support for Hindi and approximately a dozen additional Indic languages. Large Indian enterprises such as CRED already rely on Claude for critical coding work.
Anthropic appoints Paul Smith as first Chief Commercial Officer
Anthropic will appoint Paul Smith as its first Chief Commercial Officer, with the role to begin later in 2025. Smith brings over 30 years of enterprise go-to-market experience from Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. The announcement coincides with Anthropic citing strong enterprise growth metrics, including hundreds of thousands of active API customers and Claude Code recurring revenue growing over 5x in two months.
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 selects Google Cloud as primary cloud provider in early 2023 partnership
Anthropic announced Google Cloud as its primary cloud provider, with the partnership structured around co-developing AI computing systems using Google's GPU and TPU clusters for training, scaling, and deploying Anthropic's AI systems. CEO Dario Amodei framed the deal as enabling broader deployment of Claude and supporting Anthropic's safety-focused research infrastructure. The partnership predates Anthropic's later, larger investment relationship with Google and represents an early infrastructure anchor for the company.