Anthropic’s fifth office in the Asia-Pacific region, the Singapore office, is accompanied by a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Digital Affairs covering model evaluation and responsible adoption.
On October 14, Anthropic formalized the opening of its Singapore office, the company's fifth in Asia-Pacific after Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul and Sydney. In the process, the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Singaporean Ministry of Digital Development and Information, on the sidelines of the Singapore International Cyber Week. The text was initialed by Kai Fong Chng, permanent secretary of the ministry, and Ben Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, in the presence of Minister Josephine Teo.
Model assessment and adoption by SMEs
The agreement provides for cooperation on the safety and evaluation of models, with technical exchanges on test standards, research on the adoption of AI and its effects, as well as support for training and equipping SMEs. Singapore ranks second out of 121 countries for the use of Claude.ai in relation to its population, nearly six times the expected level.
Anthropic highlights several local deployments: more than 1,500 engineers at GovTech Singapore use Claude Code to modernize public systems, and Grab's sales assistant is said to save about 40,000 hours of work per quarter. DBS, the sovereign wealth fund GIC and Sea/Shopee are also among the clients mentioned. The office, headed by Dale Finlay, managing director for ASEAN, is recruiting.
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