India is an incredible market for AI: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Altman on Wednesday called India an incredible market for artificial intelligence (AI) in general. He said Indian users of OpenAI have tripled in the last year. Altman, who is in India, spoke to HT’s Editor-in-Chief R Sukumar on ChatGPT’s future plans for India, artificial general intelligence and DeepResearch.

That was in a different context. That was a different time when frontier models were super expensive to do. And you know, now, I think the world is very different paradigm. I think you can do them at way lower costs and maybe do incredible work. India is an incredible market for AI in general, for us too. It’s our second biggest market after the US. Users here have tripled in the last year. The innovation that’s happening, what people are building [in India], it’s really incredible. We’re excited to do much, much more here, and I think it’s (the Indian AI program) a great plan. And India will build great models.