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Not considering monetizing edu in India yet: OpenAI VP
Mint New Delhi
|August 26, 2025
Firm is in talks with the government to expand ChatGPT's role in India's education system
OpenAI Inc. is not actively considering monetizing the Indian market, focusing instead on expanding awareness and presence across sectors. As part of the push, the US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company is in talks with the Indian government to expand ChatGPT's role in the country's education system, said Leah Belsky, its vice president of education.
However, it has yet to consider expanding its operations with an engineering team in the country, two senior OpenAI executives told Mint on the condition of anonymity.
Belsky, speaking at a roundtable ahead of an event in New Delhi on Monday, said the company expects to be in an expansion phase, and is pitching itself as "the world's largest online education platform already."
She said ChatGPT has over 700 million users worldwide, and India is one of OpenAI's top priority markets within that. The company, which introduced ChatGPT 'study mode' in July, is seeing that Indian students are among the top adopters of the service.
This story is from the August 26, 2025 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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