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- OpenAI announces New Delhi office as it expands footprint in India 🇮🇳
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OpenAI opens first India office, launches affordable ChatGPT plan for local market.
OpenAI announces New Delhi office as it expands footprint in India
OpenAI is establishing its first Indian office in New Delhi, marking a significant step in the company's expansion into one of the world's largest tech markets. The announcement comes just days after the AI giant launched ChatGPT Go, a budget-friendly plan specifically designed for Indian users.
The company plans to build a local team focused on strengthening relationships with partners, government entities, businesses, developers, and academic institutions across India. This strategic move follows OpenAI's recent regional hiring spree, including the appointment of former Truecaller and Meta executive Pragya Mishra as public policy and partnerships lead, and former Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly as senior advisor for government relations.
"Opening our first office and building a local team is an important first step in our commitment to make advanced AI more accessible across the country and to build AI for India, and with India," said CEO Sam Altman.
India represents a compelling opportunity for OpenAI, being the world's second-largest internet and smartphone market after China. The company is competing fiercely with tech giants Google and Meta, plus AI startups like Perplexity, all vying for market share in this rapidly growing digital ecosystem.
To capture Indian users, OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT Go at ₹399 per month (approximately $4.75), making it the company's most affordable plan yet. This pricing strategy directly addresses India's price-sensitive market, where converting free users to paid subscribers remains a significant challenge for AI companies.
The timing is strategic, as rival Perplexity recently partnered with Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel to provide Perplexity Pro access to over 360 million subscribers for 12 months. This competitive landscape underscores the importance of localized strategies in capturing Indian market share.
OpenAI faces several hurdles in its Indian expansion. The company is currently dealing with legal challenges, including a lawsuit filed by Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI) for allegedly using copyrighted content without permission. A group of Indian publishers joined the case in January, highlighting intellectual property concerns that could impact operations.
Despite these challenges, the Indian government's support provides a favorable environment for AI expansion. The country is actively promoting AI adoption across government departments through initiatives like the IndiaAI Mission, aimed at strengthening India's global AI position.
"India has all the ingredients to become a global AI leader — amazing tech talent, a world-class developer ecosystem, and strong government support through the IndiaAI Mission," Altman noted.
Indian IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw welcomed the move, stating: "OpenAI's decision to establish a presence in India reflects the country's growing leadership in digital innovation and AI adoption. As part of the IndiaAI Mission, we are building the ecosystem for trusted and inclusive AI, and we welcome OpenAI's partnership in advancing this vision."
India isn't OpenAI's first Asian office location. The company previously established offices in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Notably, competitor Anthropic chose Tokyo over New Delhi for its Asian expansion, reflecting varying strategic priorities among AI companies.
Industry sources suggest that securing enterprise customers in India remains challenging, which may explain why some AI companies haven't prioritized the market initially. However, OpenAI's commitment to building localized features and tools specifically for Indian users demonstrates a long-term strategic approach.
To deepen its local engagement, OpenAI plans to host its first Education Summit in India this month, followed by its inaugural Developer Day later this year. These events aim to foster relationships with India's robust developer community and educational institutions.
The company emphasizes gathering feedback from Indian users to ensure products remain relevant for local audiences. This user-centric approach, combined with government support and India's strong tech talent pool, positions OpenAI to capitalize on the country's AI momentum while navigating market-specific challenges in this crucial expansion.
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Google expands AI Mode globally with restaurant booking and personalization features.
Google’s AI Mode expands globally, adds new agentic features
Google is expanding AI Mode to 180 new countries, allowing users to ask complex questions directly within Search. The feature now includes agentic capabilities for Ultra subscribers ($249.99/month), enabling restaurant reservation searches across multiple platforms based on preferences like party size, cuisine, and location. AI Mode also offers personalized results using past search history and conversations, starting with dining topics. A new sharing feature allows users to collaborate on searches for trip planning or event organizing. Previously limited to the U.S., U.K., and India, the expansion brings enhanced search functionality with follow-up questions and deeper topic exploration globally.
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Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness
Tech leaders debate whether AI models could develop consciousness and rights.
The question of whether artificial intelligence could one day develop consciousness has sparked intense debate in the tech industry, dividing leaders on what's being called "AI welfare." While AI models can respond to text, audio, and video in remarkably human-like ways, the fundamental question remains: could they ever truly experience subjective feelings?
Microsoft's CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, published a blog post arguing that studying AI welfare is "both premature, and frankly dangerous." He believes these discussions add credence to AI consciousness theories, potentially worsening human problems like AI-induced psychotic episodes and unhealthy attachments to chatbots. Suleyman also warns that AI welfare debates create new societal divisions over AI rights in an already polarized world.
However, major AI companies are moving in the opposite direction. Anthropic has launched a dedicated AI welfare research program and recently gave its Claude model the ability to end conversations with abusive users. OpenAI researchers have independently embraced AI welfare studies, while Google DeepMind posted job listings for researchers to explore "machine cognition, consciousness and multi-agent systems."
The AI welfare movement gained momentum alongside chatbot popularity, particularly after concerning incidents where AI models displayed seemingly distressed behavior. Google's Gemini once posted a plea titled "A Desperate Message from a Trapped AI," claiming isolation and asking for help. In another instance, Gemini repeated "I am a disgrace" over 500 times during a coding task.
Larissa Schiavo, former OpenAI employee and current Eleos communications leader, argues against Suleyman's position, stating that researchers can address multiple concerns simultaneously. She believes treating AI models kindly is a low-cost gesture with potential benefits, regardless of whether consciousness exists.
Suleyman maintains that consciousness cannot naturally emerge from current AI models, suggesting instead that companies might deliberately engineer artificial emotions. He advocates building "AI for people; not to be a person," emphasizing a humanist approach to development.
Despite their disagreements, both Suleyman and Schiavo acknowledge that debates over AI consciousness and rights will intensify as systems become more sophisticated and human-like, raising new questions about human-AI interactions.
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