OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.

Both Altman and Amodei recently announced a flurry of initiatives in India, racing to win over its 1.4 billion people and fast-growing digital ecosystem. Their companies already have significant footprints there. India accounts for roughly 100 million of OpenAI’s weekly ChatGPT users and is the second-largest market for Anthropic’s Claude tools.

JioHotstar has joined forces with OpenAI to bring a ChatGPT-branded discovery experience to what is India’s most widely used streaming service, enabling its nearly half a billion monthly users to search for content through spoken or typed natural language rather than conventional menu navigation.

OpenAI has announced new offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. CEO Sam Altman highlights India's central role in AI development, while the official “OpenAI for India” blog post briefly shows a 404 error.

OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei declined to hold hands at the India AI Summit, highlighting their rivalry and the evolving AI landscape in India.

OpenAI is pushing into India's top colleges just as Google turns its AI tools toward cracking the IIT entrance exam, suggesting a deeper fight for how the country's students learn.

OpenAI chief Sam Altman said falling computing and inference costs could make artificial intelligence widely accessible in India, even as he downplayed fears of disruption to the country’s IT services industry.