Anthropic on Wednesday said it plans to open its first office in India, entering a market where artificial intelligence usage is growing and its rival OpenAI is already making headway.

The Amazon-backed AI firm, valued at $183 billion, said it plans to open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026. It will be the company’s second office in Asia after Tokyo, Japan.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, is visiting India this week to meet with public officials and enterprise partners, the company said.

AI adoption among both consumers and businesses is expected to ramp up quickly in India. More than 90% of workers in the county already use AI, according to Boston Consulting Group, marking the highest adoption in the world.

“India is compelling because of the scale of its technical talent and the commitment from the Indian government to ensure the benefits of artificial intelligence reach all areas of society, not just concentrated pockets,” Amodei said in a press release.

Anthropic said its focus in India will be deploying AI for “social impact” in sectors like education and healthcare, as well as “supporting key industries through strategic partnerships.”

Claude is Anthropic’s key product and challenger to OpenAI. Anthropic said it would launch “enhanced performance” in Hindi for Claude, as well as nearly a dozen other languages spoken in India. Anthropic said India currently ranks second in terms of Claude usage, behind the U.S.

The company’s expansion into India comes as rival OpenAI has stepped up its push into the country this year. OpenAI launched a low-cost subscription plan for its flagship ChatGPT product and is also reportedly planning to open an office in the country.

Anthropic has some catching up to do, however. Claude was downloaded 118,000 times in August in India, versus 10.3 million ChatGPT downloads and 6.4 million of Perplexity, according to analytics firm Appfigures.

The India push is part of a broader global expansion plan for Anthropic as it grows its international workforce and looks to onboard more enterprise customers.

SoftBank Group on Monday said it had agreed to buy the robotics division of Swiss engineering firm ABB for $5.4 billion, as the Japanese giant looks to bolster its artificial intelligence plays.

The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval globally, means ABB will no longer look to spin off its robotics business as a separately listed company.

“SoftBank’s next frontier is Physical AI. Together with ABB Robotics, we will unite world-class technology and talent under our shared vision to fuse Artificial Super Intelligence and robotics — driving a groundbreaking evolution that will propel humanity forward,” Masayoshi Son, founder of SoftBank, said in a statement.

Artificial Super Intelligence, or ASI, is Son’s idea of AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans.

Son has looked to position SoftBank at the center of the potential AI boom through investments and acquisitions in different areas of technology. SoftBank owns chip designer Arm, for example, and has a major stake in OpenAI.

SoftBank already has some robot-related investments, including AutoStore Holdings and Agile Robots.

The Japanese conglomerate is not new to robotics. In 2012, SoftBank took a majority stake in a French company called Aldebaran. Two years later, the two companies launched a humanoid robot called Pepper — a bet that ultimately flopped, but robotics has now re-emerged as a key focus for the Japanese giant.

Morten Wierod, who became CEO of ABB in August 2024, has pushed the spin-off of the company’s robotics unit as a strategic move.

ABB said in a statement that the sale “will create immediate value to ABB shareholders.” The company said it will use the proceeds from the transaction “in line with its well-established capital allocation principles.”

ABB said it expected cash proceeds of approximately $5.3 billion. The expected separation cost is around $200 million, about half of which is already in ABB’s 2025 guidance.

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said Tuesday that while demand for computing power is “tremendous,” the production of artificial intelligence data centers will eventually top out.

“I’m sure at some point there’ll be too many of these things built, but we don’t see any signs of that,” Dell said on “Closing Bell: Overtime.”

The hardware maker’s server networking business grew 58% last year and was up 69% last quarter, Dell said. As large language models have evolved to more multimodal and multi-agent systems, the demand for AI processing power and capacity has continued to be strong.

Dell’s AI servers are powered by Nvidia‘s Blackwell Ultra chips. The company then sells its devices to customers like cloud service provider CoreWeave and xAI, Elon Musk’s startup.

Dell shares rose over 3% Tuesday after increasing its expected long-term revenue and profit growth in an analyst meeting.

The computer maker raised its expected annual revenue growth to 7% to 9%, up from its previous target of 3% to 4%, with diluted earnings per share now expected to be 15% higher, up from its previous 8% target.

The company reported strong second-quarter earnings in August, and said it planned to ship $20 billion worth of AI servers in fiscal 2026. That is double what it sold last year.