OpenAI has teamed with Tata Group to help expand its operations in India. The two entities plan to scale sovereign AI infrastructure, enterprise deployments and workforce skills across the country.
Announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in Delhi, the OpenAI for India initiative centres on building sovereign, AI-ready data centre capacity to run advanced models locally and reduce latency. Under OpenAI’s global Stargate programme, the partners will develop domestic infrastructure designed to meet “data residency, security, and compliance requirements for mission-critical and government workloads”.
India has emerged as one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing markets, recording more than 100 million weekly ChatGPT users. The company said the initiative “builds on that momentum”, with Tata among the first local partners named.
As part of the programme, the ChatGPT-maker will become the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) HyperVault data centre business, with initial deployments of 100MW and potential to scale to 1GW.
In addition, Tata Group will roll out ChatGPT Enterprise across its workforce over the coming years, starting with hundreds of thousands of TCS employees in one of the largest enterprise AI deployments globally.
OpenAI will also expand its AI skills programme OpenAI Certifications to India, with TCS becoming the first non-US participant, and provide more than 100,000 ChatGPT Edu licences through partnerships with Indian academic institutions.
Leading the way
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the country is “already leading the way in AI adoption” and is “well placed to help shape its future and how democratic AI is adopted at scale”.
The move follows recent OpenAI partnerships with major Indian companies including JioHotstar, Pine Labs and PhonePe.
During the Delhi summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posed with business and political leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
Source: Mobile World Live
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