Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, visited India on the 5th (local time) after visiting Japan and South Korea to consolidate leadership in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry amidst the DeepSeek shock. He expressed his willingness to cooperate in India's development of low-cost AI systems.

CEO Altman met with Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Information and Communication of India, in New Delhi and discussed building a low-cost AI ecosystem. Minister Vaishnaw said that CEO Altman expressed his willingness to cooperate with India's strategy to create graphics processing units (GPUs), models, and apps.

Minister Vaishnaw, who highly praised the success of DeepSeek's low-cost AI model, emphasized that India can also create low-cost AI models. He said, "India sent an unmanned probe to the moon at a low cost, like many other countries. Why can't we create AI models at a low cost, as many others do?"

CEO Altman emphasized at a private meeting with Indian AI developers that India is the second largest user of ChatGPT after the United States, and that it should become one of the leaders of the AI revolution.

This visit to India comes as OpenAI faces a copyright infringement lawsuit in India. Indian media outlets claim that OpenAI has used news content without permission, while OpenAI argues that it has used publicly available news content in accordance with the principles.

After visiting India, CEO Altman will visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany, France, and other countries, and will attend the 'AI Action Summit' in Paris.

[ⓒ Global Economic Times. 무단전재-재배포 금지]