727 FinancePANews October 15 news: According to an official announcement from Anthropic, the company announced the opening of an office in Singapore, its fifth office location in the Asia-Pacific region, and signed a memorandum of cooperation with Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The memorandum was signed by the ministry's Permanent Secretary Kai Fong Chng and Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann during Singapore International Cyber Week, covering cooperation areas including AI safety, security and model evaluation, AI application research, and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors. Anthropic plans to conduct technical exchanges with Singapore's AI safety institute on model evaluation, testing standards, and incident response, and to share research data including the Economic Index. The announcement said that Singapore ranks second out of 121 countries in per capita usage of Claude.ai; GovTech already has more than 1,500 engineers using Claude Code, and DBS, GIC, Grab, Sea, Supabase, and others are all using Claude.