OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited India this week to highlight the importance of the country as its second largest market. The visit aims to strengthen cooperation between OpenAI and India in the field of AI and explore future development directions.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrived in India for a visit this week, highlighting India's important position as the company's second largest market. It is revealed that OpenAI's user base in India has doubled its growth in the past year.
During the visit, Altman met with Indian Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and is expected to meet with Prime Minister Modi. At a discussion held by OpenAI, Altman highly praised India's development potential in the field of AI: "India should be one of the leaders of the AI revolution. Seeing India's construction in chips, models and applications is a big deal. Impressed. "
Regarding the cost of AI model development, Altman pointed out that although the cost of maintaining the cutting-edge of technology is still rising, the cost of unit intelligence may drop ten times each year. Minister Vaishnaw emphasized India's ability to develop cost-effective AI models and said that India is willing to cooperate with OpenAI in the three areas of GPU, model and application.
It is worth noting that this visit coincides with the time when the DeepSeek model of the Chinese AI laboratory has attracted attention. DeepSeek achieved performance comparable to OpenAI at a lower cost, which sparked industry discussion. Some observers believe that Altman's world tour is partly to deal with the market impact brought by DeepSeek.
This is Altman's visit to India again after June 2023. Compared with the remarks that other companies have difficulty developing similar ChatGPT products last year, Altman has a more open and positive attitude towards the development of India's AI, showing the adjustment of OpenAI's global market strategy.
This visit not only strengthened the cooperation between OpenAI and India, but also brought new opportunities and challenges to the development of the global AI field.