Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs AI cooperation MOU with Singapore government

Anthropic has opened a Singapore office, its fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, and signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information.

The company's announcement says the office is open and hiring, and that the MOU covers cooperation on AI safety, security, and model evaluation, research on AI adoption and its impact, and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors. Anthropic also says Singapore ranks second of 121 countries in Claude.ai usage relative to population, and that GovTech Singapore has more than 1,500 engineers using Claude Code.

An X post from Anthropic describes the same office opening and MOU in shorter terms, saying the agreement is with the Government of Singapore on AI safety and responsible adoption.