Anthropic Opens Singapore Office and Signs AI Partnership MOU with Singapore Government

Anthropic Opens Singapore Office and Signs AI Partnership MOU with Singapore Government Anthropic has opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information to advance AI safety, model evaluation, and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors. Anthropic launched its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The partnership covers technical exchanges on model evaluation, safety standards, incident response, and research sharing from the Anthropic Economic Index. Singapore ranks second out of 121 countries in per-capita Claude.ai usage, with deployments across GovTech Singapore, DBS, GIC, Grab, and Sea. Regional Expansion and Government Collaboration Signed on the sidelines of Singapore International Cyber Week, the MOU formalizes cooperation between Anthropic and the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The agreement focuses on AI safety, model evaluation standards, incident response, and responsible AI adoption for public agencies and small-to-medium businesses. This expands on Anthropic's work with Singapore since 2023, which previously included participation in IMDA's Generative AI Evaluation Sandbox and multilingual red-teaming projects. Adoption Across Public and Commercial Sectors Singapore is among Anthropic's most active global markets, ranking second of 121 countries in per-capita Claude.ai usage. In the public sector, over 1,500 GovTech Singapore technical staff have adopted Claude Code to modernize digital services. Commercially, DBS and GIC use Claude within strict security frameworks using in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock, while Grab's sales assistant BriX saves an estimated 40,000 hours per quarter and Sea utilizes Claude for Shopee's customer support and software debugging.

Anthropic设立新加坡办事处并与新加坡政府签署谅解备忘录 Anthropic宣布在新加坡设立亚太地区第五家办事处，并与新加坡数码发展及新闻部签署谅解备忘录，深化在人工智能安全、评估和负责任应用领域的合作。 Anthropic在新加坡开设亚太地区第五个办事处，组建本地团队以服务东南亚市场。 与新加坡数码发展及新闻部签署谅解备忘录，涉及模型评估、测试标准与负责任部署。 新加坡在Anthropic经济指数的人口相对使用率上全球排名第二，达到预期规模的近六倍。 新加坡政府科技局（GovTech）、星展银行、GIC、Grab及冬海集团（Sea）等机构已广泛应用Claude。 签署谅解备忘录与安全合作 在新加坡国际网络周期间，Anthropic联合创始人Ben Mann与新加坡数码发展及新闻部常任秘书Chng Kai Fong签署了谅解备忘录。双方将在人工智能安全、安全保障与模型评估、AI采用及影响研究，以及推动公共和私营部门的负责任应用方面开展合作。此外，Anthropic计划与新加坡AI安全保障机构展开技术交流，涉及测试标准与事故响应，并共享经济研究数据，支持制定相关政策规则。 新加坡公共及私营部门的落地应用 新加坡在Claude.ai的人口普及度上表现突出。新加坡政府科技局（GovTech）已有超过1500名技术人员采用Claude Code来提升政府系统的软件交付与维护效率；网络安全局亦在探索将其用于网络防御。在金融领域，星展银行（DBS）和主权财富基金GIC已将其用于日常生产力与软件开发，受监管企业还可通过Amazon Bedrock的区域内推理以满足合规需求。在企业端，Grab的销售助手BriX每季度借此节省约4万工时，冬海集团（Sea）则用于客服响应及代码调试。

Today, we are expanding our Asia-Pacific operations by opening a new office in Singapore—our fifth in the region—and signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information. Singapore is one of our most active markets anywhere in the world, and Claude is already powering Singaporean business and government services used by millions of people every day, like GovTech Singapore, Grab, and DBS. Our growing local team will ensure these organizations and many more stay on the frontier with safe, capable AI. “We’re committed to Singapore for the long term,” said Dale Finlay, General Manager of ASEAN at Anthropic. “Our customers here hold AI to an extremely high standard, especially when it comes to reliability and security. Having a team on the ground means we can get even closer to the organizations putting Claude to work on their hardest problems.” 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. Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo and Michael Sellitto, Anthropic Head of APAC Policy, witnessed the signing. It sets out areas of cooperation in AI safety, security, and model evaluation; research on AI adoption and its impact; and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors. “Singapore has been a leader in responsible AI, with a long track record of investment in model testing and evaluation,” said Mann. “We founded Anthropic on the belief that capability and safety have to go hand in hand. With this MOU, we’ll partner with Singapore to help ensure the transition to powerful AI goes well here, across Asia-Pacific, and around the world.” “Singapore’s approach to AI has always been to enable innovation while keeping pace with its evolving risks. Trust is critical for businesses, workers, and the public to use AI with confidence,” said Chng. “This partnership with Anthropic reflects the Government’s commitment to scaling up the responsible adoption of AI, deepening capabilities in our companies and government agencies, and delivering impact for Singapore.” Our work with Singapore goes back to 2023, when we joined the [Generative AI Evaluation Sandbox](https://www.imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/press-releases/2023/generative-ai-evaluation-sandbox) run by the Infocomm Media Development Authority and the AI Verify Foundation. We later partnered with them on a [red-teaming project](https://www.anthropic.com/news/challenges-in-red-teaming-ai-systems) in English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil. Under the MOU, we plan to hold technical exchanges with Singapore’s AI safety, security, and assurance institutions on model evaluation, testing standards, and incident response. We do similar work with safety institutes around the world, where sharing technical information provides governments with a clearer view of frontier AI capabilities and risks, while helping developers build safer models. We’ll also look for ways to strengthen AI skills in Singapore, help small and medium-sized businesses adopt AI responsibly, and support the government’s goal of building AI capability among public officers. We plan to share research and data with the government, including from the [Anthropic Economic Index](https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index#global-usage), and to offer technical and policy expertise as Singapore develops its rules for AI. In our latest [Economic Index](https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index#country-usage), Singapore ranks second of 121 countries in Claude.ai usage relative to its population, at nearly six times what its size alone would predict. In the public sector, more than 1,500 engineers and technical staff at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech Singapore) have adopted Claude Code to modernize government systems and speed up software delivery. This has helped GovTech Singapore teams build, maintain, and enhance digital services more efficiently at national scale. The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore is exploring how Claude could help strengthen the country’s cyber defense. In financial services, DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, works with Claude across a range of use cases in its Singapore operations—including software development and day-to-day productivity—as part of its broader AI innovation efforts. These applications operate within the bank’s strict security and governance framework. GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, is rolling out Claude across its investment and corporate services teams. Organizations in regulated sectors like financial services can now run Claude with [in-region inference](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-anthropic-models-on-amazon-bedrock-for-in-region-inference-in-seoul-and-singapore/) on Amazon Bedrock, helping them meet strict data processing requirements. Singapore’s largest technology companies and startups are building with Claude too. Grab powers BriX, its sales assistant, with Claude. The assistant saves Grab’s sales teams approximately 40,000 hours every quarter and surfaces new sales opportunities. Sea—the business behind Shopee, Garena, and Monee—works with Claude to help Shopee’s customer service chatbot respond faster and more accurately, and thousands of its employees write and debug code with Claude. And Supabase—the developer platform with strong roots in Singapore—is building with Claude Code. This week, senior leaders from Anthropic are in Singapore to open the office and meet with customers, developers, and policymakers. Today, we hosted Builder Summit Singapore, bringing more than 300 developers together with engineering and product leaders from Anthropic. Earlier in the week, Singapore’s Claude community ambassadors held a meetup for more than 700 local builders. Our Singapore office is now open and hiring. To learn more about joining the team, visit our [careers page](https://www.anthropic.com/careers/jobs?office=4063231008).