OpenAI launches IndQA to test AI on Indian languages

AI major explores data centre infra in India

- ANEES HUSSAIN

OPENAI ON TUESDAY unveiled IndQA, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well artificial intelligence (AI) models understand and reason about questions rooted in Indian languages and cultural contexts.

IndQA marks the company’s first region-specific benchmarking effort, signaling a broader move by OpenAI to create similar evaluation tools for other linguistic and cultural regions in the future.

Srinivas Narayan, CTO of B2B Applications at OpenAI, said India was chosen “as an obvious starting point given its market size, linguistic diversity with approximately one billion people who don’t use English as their primary language, and cultural richness”.

India currently represents OpenAI’s second-largest market for ChatGPT, among its roughly 8 million weekly active users worldwide.