Working with leading Indian partners, the creator of ChatGPT is hoping to unlock economic and societal benefits in India, which has rapidly become a booming technology hub in recent years.

OpenAI for India seeks to build on that momentum and work with partners, starting with Tata Group, to build sovereign AI capabilities, accelerate enterprise adoption, invest in workforce upskilling and strengthen India’s already successful AI ecosystem.

“India is already leading the way in AI adoption, and with its homegrown tech talent, optimism about what AI can do for the country, and strong government support, it is well placed to help shape its future and how democratic AI is adopted at scale,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

“Through OpenAI for India, we’re working together to build the infrastructure, skills and local partnerships needed to build AI with India, for India and in India.”

As part of OpenAI’s Stargate initiative, OpenAI and Tata Group are partnering to develop local AI-ready data centre capacity designed for data residency, security and long-term domestic capability. The company will become the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) HyperVault data centre business, which will commence with 100 megawatts (MW) of capacity and with potential to scale to one gigawatt over time.

OpenAI said this infrastructure will enable its most advanced models to run securely in India and deliver lower latency, while also meeting data residency, security and compliance requirements for mission-critical and government workloads.

Both companies have embarked on a strategic enterprise collaboration to accelerate AI-native transformation on a global scale. Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise across its employee base over the next several years, which OpenAI said makes it one of the largest enterprise AI deployments in the world.

TCS will also use OpenAI’s Codex to standardise AI-native software development across teams.

To better serve its partners across India, OpenAI is also planning to open new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year, which will operate alongside its existing presence in New Delhi.

This follows other big AI companies investing further into India, including Anthropic – which only opened its Bengaluru office this week.

“This strategic collaboration between OpenAI and Tata Group marks a major milestone in India’s vision to become a global leader in AI,” said N Chandrasekaran, chairman at Tata Sons.

“We are pleased to partner with OpenAI to create state-of-the-art AI infrastructure in India. This is a unique opportunity for OpenAI and TCS to transform industries. Together we will skill India’s youth and empower them to succeed in the AI era.”

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