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Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the Government of Singapore
Summary
Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office, in Singapore, and signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) on AI safety, evaluation, adoption research, and skills. The post lists local customers and notes in-region inference for regulated firms.
Key points
- MOU scope: cooperation on AI safety, security, and model evaluation; technical exchanges with Singapore's AI assurance institutions on testing standards and incident response; skills for SMEs and public officers; sharing Anthropic Economic Index data.
- GovTech Singapore has over 1,500 engineers and technical staff using Claude Code.
- Other users named: DBS, GIC, Grab (BriX sales assistant, about 40,000 hours saved per quarter), Sea/Shopee, Supabase; the Cyber Security Agency is exploring Claude for cyber defence.
- Regulated organisations can run Claude with in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock.
- Singapore ranks 2nd of 121 countries for Claude.ai use relative to population.
Why it matters
Mostly industry news, but it shows government agreements increasingly covering joint model evaluation, and in-region inference as the route for regulated customers.