Industry change
Anthropic opens Singapore office, signs AI MOU with government
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- Anthropic Newsroom
Summary
Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering AI safety, security, evaluation, and responsible adoption. The company says more than 1,500 GovTech engineers now use Claude Code to modernize government systems, with adoption expanding at DBS, GIC, and Grab. The claim that Grab's sales assistant saves about 40,000 hours per quarter is company-reported.
Why it matters for our work
The deal shows a national government formalizing cooperation with an AI vendor, from model evaluation to incident response. Accumulating public- and financial-sector use cases offer a concrete reference point for how fast AI adoption is moving in regulated industries.
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