Railway and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared his excitement of meeting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with a tweet on his X Profile.

Vaishnaw outlined India’s AI-driven initiatives spanning healthcare, education, agriculture, weather forecasting, disaster management and transportation.

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman met with India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to discuss India's AI strategy. Altman clarified previous comments about the high costs of AI development and expressed willingness to collaborate with India on building its AI stack.

Altman's trip to India follows visits to Japan and Korea. He clinched deals with SoftBank Group and Kakao . In Seoul, he also held talks with SoftBank and Samsung about the Stargate AI data centre project that has been backed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The minister said that the OpenAI CEO appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of democratising technology.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday said India is now OpenAI’s second-largest market by number of users, which have tripled in the past year. Altman met with India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and discussed India's plan of creating a low-cost AI ecosystem.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared India the company’s most critical international market. Altman’s statement came after a year that saw OpenAI’s user base in India triple, marking the end of a multi-day tour of Asia that included stops in Tokyo and Delhi.

Some may see it as a sobering effect of the onslaught of China's cost-belting DeepSeek in the global world of AI, but OpenAI founder Sam Altman - who just a year and a half ago dubbed India's ambitions of building foundation AI models with limited budget as a "hopeless" pursuit - now believes the country can be "one of the leaders" in