Business news · AI & Tech · 05 Oct 2026
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Anthropic said on October 5 that its Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 models can now be used through an India endpoint on Amazon Bedrock, with requests processed on servers inside the country. Reliance and CRED tried the service in a private preview. Business Today's report also names TCS, Kotak Bank, Mahindra Group, NPCI, Godrej Industries, Swiggy and Freshworks among organisations highlighting it, and Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank and Infosys among existing Claude users.
Banks, insurers, payment systems and government bodies often cannot send customer data abroad, which has kept many AI projects at the pilot stage; local processing removes that obstacle for Claude. The money flows to Amazon Web Services (usage is billed through Bedrock) and to Anthropic, and to IT services firms that build on the model: TCS is rolling Claude out to 50,000 associates and Infosys runs an Anthropic centre of excellence. Anthropic also cites up to 5,000 people certified at its first partner event in Bengaluru. No contract values or India revenue were disclosed, so the direct effect on any listed company's numbers cannot be sized from this report.
Reported by Business Today — “Anthropic Claude models get local inference in India via Amazon Bedrock: What it means for you” ↗ on 05 Oct 2026.
NSE stocks, from the last close on or before 05 Oct 2026 to the close on 16 Oct 2026.
| Sector | Stocks | Median move | Up | vs all stocks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information Technology | 40 | +6.4% | 32 of 40 | +6.7 pts |
| Financial Services | 125 | +0.4% | 66 of 125 | +0.7 pts |
| All tracked stocks | 804 | -0.3% | 374 of 804 | — |
| Company | Then | Now | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Axis Bank Ltd. AXISBANK | ₹1,222.2 | ₹1,290 | +5.5% |
| Godrej Industries Ltd. GODREJIND | ₹1,040.2 | ₹1,044.2 | +0.4% |
| IndusInd Bank Ltd. INDUSINDBK | ₹886.6 | ₹877 | -1.1% |
| Infosys Ltd. INFY | ₹1,020.5 | ₹1,161.2 | +13.8% |
| Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. KOTAKBANK | ₹416 | ₹447.4 | +7.5% |
| Reliance Industries Ltd. RELIANCE | ₹1,186.4 | ₹1,211.2 | +2.1% |
| Swiggy Ltd. SWIGGY | ₹238.8 | ₹234.3 | -1.9% |
| Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. TCS | ₹2,114.4 | ₹2,465 | +16.6% |
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