Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Generative AI pioneer OpenAI has begun discussions to house data of its Indian users within the country, three executives who attended Wednesday's New Delhi meeting with the company's chief executive said. “OpenAI is looking for ways to expand its India presence, which is a natural process since India is one of the biggest developer ecosystems for the company.
With multiple competitors within the US itself, and now coupled with the emergence of China as a force to reckon with, the company is in process of doubling down on its India presence. It has already begun discussing ways to localize its Indian citizens’ data in domestic data centres, in anticipation of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The move to localize data operations is likely to commence soon," one of the three executives said on the condition of anonymity.
The DPDP Act states that a copy of data belonging to Indian citizens must be stored in the country at all times by any company with over five million active users. Queries sent to an OpenAI spokesperson remained unanswered. Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, was in India on Wednesday on his second visit here.
In conversation with union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Altman said that India was “OpenAI’s second largest market globally"—underlining the importance of the market’s size in the company’s data operations. Also read | Mint Primer | DeepSeek: A Chinese marvel or OpenAI copy? It is not clear if OpenAI has identified data centres to ramp up its India presence. However, Hiranandani Group-backed data centres firm, Yotta Data Services, is seen a frontrunner.
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