Anthropic announced on Monday that it will enable Indian organisations to process requests to its Claude AI model on local servers in the coming weeks, through Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Web Services' platform for building and deploying generative AI applications. Requests sent to Claude through the India endpoint will be processed on servers located within the country, allowing organisations to keep sensitive data inside India's borders. The move brings Anthropic in line with rivals OpenAI and Google, which already offer local data processing for their AI models in India. Anthropic said local inference has been one of the most frequent requests from Indian enterprises and is expected to accelerate adoption across sectors such as banking, insurance, telecommunications and government. Irina Ghose, Managing Director, India, Anthropic, said India's banks, insurers, telecoms, and public sector organisations manage the data of over a billion people, and when that data can stay in India, AI moves from pilot projects into mission-critical systems. AWS India and South Asia President Sandeep Dutta said India is at an inflection point in its AI journey. Anthropic recently began testing subscription pricing for Claude in Indian rupees, with payments currently limited to credit and debit cards. Anthropic opened its first India office in Bengaluru in February 2026, following its India expansion announcement in October 2025. The announcement follows the temporary suspension of global access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models in June after a US government export-control directive, with access restored