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# Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety and adoption MOU with Singapore's digital ministry

On Oct 14, 2026 Anthropic opened a Singapore office, its fifth in Asia-Pacific. It also signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) on AI safety, security and model evaluation, research on AI adoption, and responsible adoption in the public and private sectors. The MOU was signed during Singapore International Cyber Week.

## Key facts
- MOU signed by MDDI Permanent Secretary Chng Kai Fong and Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann on the sidelines of Singapore International Cyber Week; witnessed by Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo and Anthropic Head of APAC Policy Michael Sellitto
- Areas: AI safety, security and model evaluation (technical exchanges with Singapore's AI safety, security and assurance institutions on evaluation, testing standards and incident response); research on AI adoption and its impact, including Anthropic Economic Index data; AI skills, SME adoption and training for public officers
- Anthropic Economic Index: Singapore ranks 2nd of 121 countries for Claude.ai use relative to population, nearly six times what its size would predict
- Customers named: GovTech Singapore (more than 1,500 engineers and technical staff use Claude Code), the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (exploring Claude for national cyber defence), DBS, GIC, Grab (its Claude-based BriX sales assistant saves about 40,000 hours a quarter), Sea (Shopee, Garena, Monee) and Supabase; regulated sectors can run Claude in-region on Amazon Bedrock
- Dale Finlay, Anthropic's General Manager for ASEAN: 'We're committed to Singapore for the long term'
- Background: Anthropic joined the IMDA / AI Verify Foundation Generative AI Evaluation Sandbox in 2023 and ran a red-teaming project with them in English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil
- Same week: Google DeepMind presented an on-device scam detector built with GovTech Singapore at the same Cyber Week

## What happened

Anthropic announced its Singapore office together with an MOU with MDDI. Most of the announcement is about cooperation on evaluating
and testing models, research on how AI is being adopted, and training. It also lists Singaporean government and corporate users of Claude.

## Why it matters

It is a small step in Anthropic's international expansion, but it continues a pattern: labs sign government safety and evaluation
agreements as they open regional offices. Singapore is one of the heaviest per-capita users of Claude. Google DeepMind announced its own
Singapore government project at the same event.

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## Sources

1. [Anthropic: Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the Government of Singapore (Oct 14)](https://www.anthropic.com/news/singapore-office-opening) (anthropic.com, official)

## Changes

- 2026-10-14 (filed): Created (from the Anthropic post)

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- 2026-10-14: [Google DeepMind and Singapore's GovTech build an on-device scam-detection model from a fine-tuned Gemma](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-14-deepmind-govtech-singapore-on-device-scam-detection/index.md)
- People: [Ben Mann](https://postcutoff.com/person/ben-mann/)