On the eve of the "India AI Impact Summit" launched on Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an article in The Times of India: India has 100 million ChatGPT weekly active users, officially becoming the second-largest market globally after the United States, and occupies a core position in OpenAI's global strategy.

Downward Strategy Proves Effective, Capturing the Youth Market

To adapt to India's huge and price-sensitive market, after establishing an office in New Delhi in August 2025, OpenAI not only launched a low-cost version "ChatGPT Go", but also provided local users with a free one-year usage. This strategy has shown significant results, especially triggering explosive growth among students. Currently, India has the largest ChatGPT student user group in the world.

At the same time, industry competition is becoming increasingly intense. Google is not to be outdone, and plans to provide Indian students with a free one-year AI Pro subscription in September 2025. Google vice president Chris Phillips confirmed that India is currently the country with the highest global usage rate for its Gemini learning application.

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Challenges from "User Scale" to "Economic Benefits"

Although ChatGPT's global weekly active users are approaching 900 million, there are still challenges in commercializing it in India. Altman pointed out that although India has a large scale, infrastructure limitations and market sensitivity make large-scale deployment more complex than in developed economies.

To deal with this situation, the Indian government is accelerating computing power expansion and supporting start-ups through the "India AI Mission". Altman warned that if AI cannot achieve "democratization", economic benefits may concentrate in the hands of a few. To this end, OpenAI plans to deepen its cooperation with the Indian government and will soon announce new partnerships aimed at expanding AI accessibility.

Global Giants Gather, India's AI Ambition Begins to Show

The five-day summit is a concentrated display of global technological strength. In addition to Altman, CEOs of Anthropic Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Indian business magnate Mukesh Ambani will attend. The presence of leaders from countries such as France, UAE, and Brazil further highlights India's growing influence in global AI governance and technology development direction.

At present, OpenAI has not commented on further market cooperation details.

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