Anthropic will open a Singapore office in October, giving the artificial intelligence company its first office in Southeast Asia and its fifth location in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Claude developer said it plans to hire across a range of functions in Singapore. The new location joins its existing offices in Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul and Sydney.
Anthropic is expanding locally as Singapore becomes one of Claude’s highest-usage markets relative to population. The company’s latest Economic Index ranked Singapore second among 121 countries for Claude.ai usage per capita, with usage 5.81 times higher than would be expected from the country’s population size.
Singapore becomes Anthropic’s Southeast Asia base
Dale Finlay, Anthropic’s general manager for ASEAN, will lead the Singapore office. The company said the local presence will support work with customers and partners across the region as more organizations move from AI trials into production use.
Channel NewsAsia reported that Anthropic’s careers site showed nine Singapore-based openings across five teams when the office announcement was made, including roles in applied AI, finance and marketing.
The move adds another major AI company to Singapore’s growing concentration of regional operations. It also gives Anthropic an on-the-ground base for Southeast Asia, where adoption conditions vary across enterprise demand, regulation, infrastructure and language markets.
Enterprise demand drives APAC expansion
Anthropic cited enterprise demand for Claude as a reason for the expansion. Singapore’s role as a regional business and technology hub also gives the company access to multinational customers and partners operating across Southeast Asia.
TNGlobal has recently covered other enterprise platforms bringing governed workflows into Claude, including Salesforce’s AIforce interface layer.
Anthropic has not disclosed the size of the Singapore office, the number of employees it expects to hire, or an investment figure for the expansion.