Anthropic opens Singapore office, signs MOU with government on AI safety
Anthropic · rss · 2026-10-14
Anthropic announced its fifth APAC office in Singapore and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, covering AI safety, security, model evaluation, incident response, and responsible AI adoption research.
Key adoption figures disclosed:
- Singapore ranks 2nd of 121 countries in per-capita Claude usage (6x expected for its size)
- Over 1,500 GovTech engineers use Claude Code to modernize government systems
- DBS and sovereign wealth fund GIC deploy Claude; regulated sectors can now run in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock
- Grab's Claude-powered sales assistant BriX saves 40,000 hours per quarter; Sea uses Claude for Shopee's chatbot and internal coding
Anthropic also hosted a 300-person Builder Summit and a 700-person community meetup in Singapore this week.
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