Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore government
Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The MOU was signed by Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann and Permanent Secretary Kai Fong Chng, witnessed by Minister Josephine Teo and Anthropic's Michael Sellitto. It covers cooperation on AI safety, security, model evaluation,…
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- Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information
- Singapore ranks second globally in per-capita Claude.ai usage at nearly 6x expected rate
- GovTech Singapore has 1,500+ engineers using Claude Code; Grab saves 40,000 hours quarterly
Anthropic said Singapore ranks second among 121 countries in per-capita Claude.ai usage, nearly six times the expected rate. GovTech Singapore has over 1,500 engineers using Claude Code to modernize government systems. DBS Bank and sovereign wealth fund GIC are deploying Claude across operations, while Grab reports saving 40,000 hours per quarter with its Claude-powered sales assistant. Organizations in regulated sectors can run Claude with in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock. Anthropic also hosted a Builder Summit for 300 developers and a community meetup for 700 builders this week.
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