OpenAI’s Altman meets with India IT minister to debate nation’s AI plans, ETCFO

OpenAI Chief Govt Sam Altman met with India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday and mentioned India’s plan of making a low-cost AI ecosystem.
Vaishnaw mentioned in a submit on X that he had a “tremendous cool dialogue” with Altman on India’s “technique of making the complete AI stack – GPUs, mannequin, and apps” and that OpenAI was prepared to collaborate on all three.
Altman’s India go to, his first since 2023, comes at a time when the corporate faces authorized challenges within the nation, its second-largest market by variety of customers.
Vaishnaw final week praised Chinese language startup DeepSeek for shaking up the sector with its low-cost AI assistant, likening its frugal strategy to his authorities’s efforts to construct a localised AI mannequin.
“Our nation despatched a mission to the moon at a friction of the price that many different nations did proper, why cannot we do a mannequin that shall be a fraction of the price that many others do?” Vaishnaw mentioned in a video of a part of the dialogue with Altman that he posted.
Altman’s journey to India follows visits to Japan and Korea. He clinched offers with SoftBank Group and Kakao. In Seoul, he additionally held talks with SoftBank and Samsung concerning the Stargate AI knowledge centre venture that has been backed by U.S. President Donald Trump.