Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the government on AI safety

Anthropic said on October 14 that it has opened a new office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The company called Singapore one of its most active markets and said Claude already powers business and government services used by millions of people every day, including at GovTech Singapore, Grab and DBS.

Kai Fong Chng, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, and Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann signed the MOU on the sidelines of Singapore International Cyber Week, with Minister Josephine Teo and Anthropic's Michael Sellitto witnessing. Anthropic said the agreement 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.

Under the MOU, Anthropic plans technical exchanges with Singapore's AI safety and assurance institutions on evaluation, testing standards and incident response, and said it will share research including from the Anthropic Economic Index. Dale Finlay, Anthropic's general manager of ASEAN, said Singapore customers hold AI to a high standard on reliability and security, and that a local team brings the company closer to organizations using Claude on hard problems.

Anthropic said Singapore ranks second of 121 countries for Claude.ai usage relative to population in its latest Economic Index, at nearly six times what its size alone would predict. It reported that more than 1,500 engineers and technical staff at GovTech Singapore use Claude Code, that DBS and GIC are rolling out Claude, and that Grab's Claude-powered BriX sales assistant saves sales teams about 40,000 hours per quarter—figures Anthropic provided. The company said the office is open and hiring, and that it hosted Builder Summit Singapore with more than 300 developers on the same day.