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Anthropic has begun displaying rupee-denominated pricing for Claude subscriptions in India, its second-largest market after the US with 5.8% of global usage. Claude Pro is priced at ₹2,000 ($21) monthly when billed annually, compared to $17 in the US, with Indian prices including local taxes.

Amazon Bedrock now enables access to Anthropic Claude models in India with global cross-region inference support. The service allows developers to build generative AI applications with Claude variants across AWS regions.

Sarvam, an Indian AI startup, has launched Indus, a chat application currently available in beta. The move positions the company to compete against global AI players in the rapidly expanding Indian market for conversational AI.

Abu Dhabi-based G42 has partnered with U.S. chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of computational capacity through a new system in India. The partnership represents a significant infrastructure expansion for AI training and inference workloads in South Asia.