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OpenAI Confirms First India Office in New Delhi, Starts Building Local Team

The move follows India-specific pricing after a surge in student and developer usage.

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OpenAI’s decision to open its first India office in Delhi has sparked chatter on X.
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Overview

  • OpenAI has registered a legal entity in India, will open a New Delhi office later in 2025, and has begun hiring to deepen ties with government, businesses, developers, partners, and universities.
  • The company launched ChatGPT Go at ₹399 per month with UPI payments, introduced Study Mode for learners, and reported improved Indic language performance in GPT-5.
  • India is now ChatGPT’s second-largest market, with weekly active users up roughly fourfold over the past year and the largest global population of student users; the country ranks among the top five developer markets on OpenAI’s platform.
  • Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw welcomed OpenAI’s collaboration under the IndiaAI Mission; OpenAI plans an Education Summit this month and a Developer Day in India later this year.
  • Headwinds include legal complaints from Indian news and book publishers over training-data use, which OpenAI denies, and intensifying competition from Google’s Gemini and Perplexity, including free or telco-bundled premium offerings.