OpenAI Launches In‑Country API Inference Residency in India

Overview

• OpenAI announced on Thursday that eligible Indian businesses can now run supported GPT-6 Luna API workloads with both model computation and request processing taking place inside India.
• For now the offering covers text workloads through the Responses and Chat Completions APIs and requires customers to create a new India API project and use the India regional endpoint.
• OpenAI says customer content for supported workloads will be stored in India so organisations with strict data residency rules, such as banks and other regulated firms, can move more AI tools into day‑to‑day operations.
• The launch follows OpenAI's earlier India partnerships and infrastructure work and is intended to turn pilot projects into production by removing where data is processed as a barrier to adoption.
• The move joins similar efforts by rivals and cloud partners and could narrow a local‑hosting advantage held by Indian startups as global firms compete to offer in‑country inference and storage.