Anthropic announced that Claude artificial intelligence models will be available with in-country inference in India through Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Web Services' managed generative AI platform, in the coming weeks. The expansion targets enterprises and government entities that require data to be processed locally, ensuring AI prompts and responses remain within India. The offering focuses on highly regulated sectors including banking, insurance, telecommunications and public-sector organisations handling sensitive customer data. Anthropic said India is among Claude's largest markets, with strong developer adoption and growing demand for enterprise AI deployments. Major Indian organisations including Axis Bank, NPCI, IndusInd Bank and Godrej Industries already use Claude. Irina Ghose, managing director, India, Anthropic, said bringing Claude inference to India is a turning point for enterprise AI, noting that India's banks, insurers, telecommunications companies, and public-sector agencies steward the data of a billion people. Claude deployments through Amazon Bedrock include audit trails and access controls for risk and compliance teams. Sandeep Dutta, president, AWS India and South Asia, said India is at an inflection point in its AI journey, with institutions ready to harness frontier AI at scale.