OpenAI chief: India’s AI moment is now
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New Delhi: India has “all the ingredients to be a full-stack AI leader”, Sam Altman said ahead of his visit to the country for the Global AI Impact Summit, citing its tech talent, national strategy and optimism about the technology’s potential. Calling India the world’s largest democracy, OpenAI CEO said the country combines homegrown expertise with a policy push to deploy AI at scale. Referring to the government’s IndiaAI Mission, he said it is designed to expand compute capacity, support startups and accelerate multilingual applications in healthcare, agriculture and public services to ensure AI becomes “an essential tool for hundreds of millions of people across India”. Altman noted India’s rapid adoption of AI tools, saying the country now has “100 million weekly active users”, the second-largest base after the US.
