Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Government of Singapore on October 14
Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore during Singapore International Cyber Week and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering AI safety evaluation, responsible adoption and public-sector capability building; Grab, Sea, DBS and GovTech already use Claude.
Anthropic on October 14 formally opened its Singapore office during Singapore International Cyber Week, the company's fifth in the Asia-Pacific region. The same day co-founder Ben Mann signed a memorandum of understanding with Kai Fong Chng, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, witnessed by Minister Josephine Teo and Anthropic APAC Policy head Michael Sellitto. The MOU covers AI safety, security and model evaluation, research on AI adoption and impact, and responsible AI adoption in public and private sectors. Singapore has worked with Anthropic since 2023 inside IMDA's Generative AI Evaluation Sandbox and has completed a red-teaming project across English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. Singapore ranks second globally in Claude.ai usage relative to population at nearly 6x the expected level; more than 1,500 engineers and technical staff at GovTech Singapore already use Claude Code. DBS, GIC and Grab's BriX sales assistant save around 40,000 hours every quarter; thousands of staff at Sea and Supabase write and debug code with Claude. Anthropic provides in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock in Singapore to meet data localisation requirements for regulated industries such as finance.