Announcement ·
Anthropic signs a memorandum of understanding with the Singapore government on the opening of its new office
Original title, in French: “Anthropic signe un protocole d’accord avec le gouvernement de Singapour à l’occasion de l’ouverture de son nouveau bureau”
- Publication
- Unite.AI (United States)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 14 October 2026 · read in the page metadata
Summary
Anthropic has opened a new office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and on 14 October 2026 signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering AI safety, research on its adoption and its responsible deployment in the public and private sectors. According to Anthropic, Singapore ranks second out of 121 countries for Claude.ai usage relative to population. The company cites deployments at GovTech Singapore (more than 1,500 engineers using Claude Code), DBS, GIC, Grab (whose BriX assistant reportedly saves sales teams around 40,000 hours per quarter), Sea/Shopee and Supabase. Anthropic also plans to help Singaporean SMEs adopt AI.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Unite.AI →Figures cited
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2 rank
Singapore's rank for Claude.ai usage relative to population, among 121 countries
121 countries, latest edition of Anthropic's Economic Index
« Singapour se classe au deuxième rang parmi 121 pays pour l’utilisation de Claude.ai rapportée à la population, avec un niveau presque six fois supérieur à celui que sa population laisserait prévoir. »
Source: Anthropic Economic Index
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6 times
Level of Claude.ai usage in Singapore relative to what its population would predict
Singapore, latest edition of Anthropic's Economic Index
« Singapour se classe au deuxième rang parmi 121 pays pour l’utilisation de Claude.ai rapportée à la population, avec un niveau presque six fois supérieur à celui que sa population laisserait prévoir. »
Source: Anthropic Economic Index
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1,500 people
Number of GovTech Singapore engineers and technical staff using Claude Code
GovTech Singapore
« plus de 1 500 ingénieurs et membres du personnel technique de l’Agence gouvernementale de technologie de Singapour (GovTech Singapore) utilisent Claude Code pour moderniser les systèmes publics et accélérer la livraison de logiciels »
Source: Anthropic
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40,000 hours
Hours saved per quarter by Grab's sales teams thanks to the Claude-based BriX assistant
Grab, per quarter
« cet outil fait gagner aux équipes commerciales de Grab environ 40 000 heures par trimestre et leur permet de repérer de nouvelles occasions de vente »
Source: Anthropic
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300 people
Number of developers who attended the Builder Summit Singapore
Builder Summit Singapore, 14 October 2026
« l’entreprise a organisé le Builder Summit Singapore, un événement qui a réuni plus de 300 développeurs et des responsables de l’ingénierie et des produits d’Anthropic »
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700 people
Number of local developers gathered at the Claude community meetup before the summit
Singapore, before the Builder Summit
« les ambassadeurs de la communauté Claude à Singapour ont organisé une rencontre pour plus de 700 développeurs locaux »
Classification
- Country
- Singapore
- Company size
- SMEs, Large companies, All sizes
- Industries
- Government and local authorities · Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms
- Companies
- Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (cited), DBS (deploys AI), Amazon (supplier), GovTech Singapore (deploys AI), GIC (deploys AI), Shopee (cited), Sea (deploys AI), Grab (deploys AI), Supabase (deploys AI), Anthropic (supplier)
- Keywords
- generative artificial intelligence, public sector, financial services, cybersecurity, Singapore, government agreement
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Unite.AI. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.