Sam Altman, who’s on a trip through Asia, said he’s open to partnering with local startups to facilitate the development of indigenous large language models (LLMs) and is looking to make investments in India.

After the Chinese startup DeepSeek surprised everyone with its AI reasoning model, OpenAI's CEO responded to that hype.

OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman called Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek “impressive,” while shrugging off concerns the startup could threaten OpenAI’s

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly applauded competitor DeepSeek’s R1 model in a recent social media post.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday said India is now OpenAI’s second-largest market by number of users, which have tripled in the past year. Altman met with India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and discussed India's plan of creating a low-cost AI ecosystem.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared India the company’s most critical international market. Altman’s statement came after a year that saw OpenAI’s user base in India triple, marking the end of a multi-day tour of Asia that included stops in Tokyo and Delhi.

Some may see it as a sobering effect of the onslaught of China's cost-belting DeepSeek in the global world of AI, but OpenAI founder Sam Altman - who just a year and a half ago dubbed India's ambitions of building foundation AI models with limited budget as a "hopeless" pursuit - now believes the country can be "one of the leaders" in