India to define how AI works in real world: OpenAI CTO

OpenAI is actively lowering adoption barriers in India with a year of free ChatGPT Go access

- Staff Writer

India will be central in how artificial intelligence is deployed in the real world, with the country set to provide a significant share of global usage cues over the next year, said Srinivas Narayanan, chief technology officer for B2B Applications at OpenAI, on Thursday.

In an online session at the 23rd Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Narayanan also spoke about evolving guardrails for AI usage, OpenAI's focus on India and Indian languages, enabling Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments and the challenges of scaling.

His comments come at a time when the arc of artifical intelligence evolution is believed to be at an inflection point—both in terms of technology as well as regulations.