OpenAI’s CEO Touts Tripling of Users in Pitch to India Founders

OpenAI’s Sam Altman called India the startup’s most important international market after a tripling in users last year, closing a days-long tour of Asia that’s taken him from Tokyo to Delhi.

Altman is jetting around the globe at a time OpenAI’s dominance of AI is under pressure from competitors like Chinese upstart DeepSeek. India is one of the largest global talent pools of AI developers and key to the ambitions of tech leaders Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, as well as startups like Anthropic.

“India is an incredibly important market for AI and particularly for ...