India Hits 100 Million Weekly ChatGPT Users, Becomes OpenAI's Second-Largest Market

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced India now has 100 million weekly ChatGPT users, making it the second-largest user base after the US.
• The disclosure comes ahead of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, where global AI leaders, including Altman, will participate.
• India's young population and over a billion internet users make it a key growth market; OpenAI opened a New Delhi office and offers a free ChatGPT Go tier.
• Students are a major driver of adoption, with India having the largest number of student users globally, integrating AI into learning.
• Altman highlighted the challenge of converting widespread usage into economic impact and signaled deeper engagement with the Indian government for new partnerships.