❯ Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the Singapore government

Fifth office in Asia-PacificAnthropic announced on X on October 14 that it has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Singapore government on AI safety and responsible adoption.

Signed before the ministerAccording to Tech Edition, the MOU was signed by Chng Kai Fong, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, and Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann, and witnessed by Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo and Michael Sellitto, Anthropic’s head of APAC policy.

Testing standards and trainingUnder the MOU, Anthropic will hold technical exchanges with Singapore’s AI safety and assurance institutions on model evaluation, testing standards and incident response, support AI skills for small businesses and public officers, and share research data including from the Anthropic Economic Index. Customers named in the report include GovTech Singapore, DBS, GIC, Grab and Sea, and more than 1,500 GovTech engineers and technical staff use Claude Code.

Second in per-capita useAnthropic says Singapore ranks second among 121 countries for Claude.ai usage relative to population, nearly six times the expected level. A local office lets it serve those government and corporate customers more closely. The MOU is a cooperation framework, and no concrete outcomes have been announced yet.

▮ SIGNALA safety MOU is both a compliance gesture and a pass into government customers, and markets like Singapore, with heavy usage and clear rules, are the first to be courted.