TLDR: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that feedback from Indian users, spanning various languages, has directly influenced the company’s product development. Speaking on Nikhil Kamath’s WTF podcast, Altman emphasized India’s significant role as OpenAI’s second-largest market globally, with the potential to become its largest. He lauded India’s ‘incredible’ enthusiasm and entrepreneurial energy for AI, coinciding with the launch of GPT-5, which features enhanced support for over a dozen Indian languages.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently underscored the pivotal role of Indian users in shaping the company’s product development, citing their feedback across language support, affordability, and access. During his appearance on Nikhil Kamath’s ‘People by WTF’ podcast, Altman highlighted India’s burgeoning importance to the generative AI leader.
Altman remarked, ‘If there is one large society in the world that seems most enthusiastic to transform with AI right now, it’s India. The excitement, the embrace of AI… the energy is incredible.’ He further added, ‘The entrepreneurial energy around building with AI in India is quite amazing, and we hope to see much more of it.’
India currently stands as OpenAI’s second-largest market globally, trailing only the United States, but Altman suggested it ‘may well become our largest market.’ He described India as ‘incredibly fast-growing,’ noting that ‘what users are doing with AI, what citizens of India are doing with AI, is really quite remarkable.’ OpenAI is particularly focused on tailoring products for India, collaborating with local partners to ensure AI solutions are effective and affordable across the country. Altman also confirmed plans to visit India in September.
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This emphasis on the Indian market coincides with the recent launch of GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence system. Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT, confirmed that GPT-5 offers significantly improved comprehension across more than a dozen Indian languages, including various regional tongues, reinforcing India as a priority market for localization. Altman described GPT-5 as ‘our best model yet for coding and agentic tasks’ and a ‘pretty significant step’ toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The new model is available in three versions—GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, and GPT-5-nano—and is being rolled out to users, including free access for the first time.
