India, Oct. 8 -- Anthropic AI plans to open its first office in India by early next year and is reportedly in talks with Reliance Industries Ltd., as part of moves to deepen presence in its largest market outside of the US.

"Bengaluru will serve as our second office in Asia Pacific after Tokyo, which will open in the coming months," the San Francisco-based company said on its website on Wednesday. "This expansion will help us serve India's rapidly growing AI ecosystem and reflects the increasing international demand we are seeing for Claude."

Claude is a generative AI model and chatbot developed by Anthropic, similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini.

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