Anthropic Opens Singapore Office and Signs AI Safety MOU with Government
Summary
Anthropic opens its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signs an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering AI safety, security and model evaluation. An Anthropic Economic Index ranks Singapore second of 121 countries in Claude.ai usage per capita. GovTech Singapore says more than 1,500 engineers use Claude Code.
Key Points
- Dale Finlay, Anthropic's General Manager of ASEAN, says the company is committed to Singapore for the long term.
- Grab says BriX, its Claude-powered sales assistant, saves sales teams about 40,000 hours every quarter.
- Organizations in regulated sectors can now run Claude with in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock.