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India poised to succeed at all layers of AI stack: OpenAI's Jason Kwon
India is becoming a global artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse with the second-highest number of users of OpenAI's ChatGPT, a thriving community of developers that are among the top 10 countries globally building on OpenAI's application programming interfaces (APIs), the company's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, said.
'With the vast and growing pool of AI talent, a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, and strong government support to expand the critical infrastructure, India is poised to succeed at all layers of the AI stack,' Kwon said.
The executive was in India on Thursday as part of his global tour. On Thursday, OpenAI launched the OpenAI Academy India, the first international expansion of the company's education platform. Through the academy, OpenAI will support the IndiaAI Mission's FutureSkills pillar by expanding access to AI skills training for a wide range of learners — students, developers, educators, civil servants, nonprofit leaders, and small-business owners, the company said.
Apart from this, the company will provide educational content on the government's Karmayogi platform, which aims to enhance skills and build capacity among public servants and government officials.
On Thursday, OpenAI said it now supported 3 million paying business users of ChatGPT, up from 2 million in February.
The company announced the launch of the beta version of Connectors, a tool that can help enterprises find granular data from their third-party tools without leaving ChatGPT.
'Additionally, deep research connectors (beta) are now available with HubSpot, Linear, as well as many popular Microsoft and Google tools. These build on Deep Research, an agent that conducts multi-step research for complex tasks, by gathering, synthesizing, and presenting information from third-party tools and the web,' the company said in a press note.
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