<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">OpenAI seems to have found product-market fit with young Indians. The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age accounted for nearly 50% of messages sent to ChatGPT in the country, and users under 30 accounted for 80%. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The AI lab said Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work, with 35% of all messages relating to professional tasks, compared to 30% globally. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In particular, the company’s coding assistant, Codex, is seeing strong traction: OpenAI said Indians use Codex three times more than the global median, and weekly usage has increased by four times since the tool <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/openai-launches-new-macos-app-for-agentic-coding/">got a Mac app</a> two weeks ago. Users in India are also asking three times as many coding-related questions as the median.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is in line with findings from Anthropic, which earlier this week said <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/india-brief-economic-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">45.2% of Claude’s tasks map to software-related use cases</a> in India.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">OpenAI said outside of work tasks, 35% of messages to ChatGPT from Indians requested guidance, 20% concerned questions about general information, and 20% were requests for the bot to produce or help with writing.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">India is OpenAI’s second-largest market with more than 100 million weekly users, and the company has been actively trying to court Indians for its AI tools and services. The company offers <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/openai-launches-a-sub-5-chatgpt-plan-in-india/">a sub-$5 subscription tier</a> in the country, and last year even <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-offers-free-chatgpt-go-for-one-year-to-all-users-in-india/">ran promotional campaigns</a> to spur adoption.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“AI adoption is moving faster than our ability to measure it – and that’s a challenge for anyone trying to make smart decisions. Signals is our way of putting real-world evidence on the table, so India’s AI debate can be grounded in facts, not hype,” OpenAI’s chief economist Ronnie Chatterji said in a statement.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">OpenAI has had a busy few days in India, which is hosting a major <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/16/all-the-important-news-from-the-ongoing-india-ai-summit/">AI Impact Summit</a> in New Delhi this week. The company is opening new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru this year, and has signed a major partnership with conglomerate Tata Group to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-tata-for-100mw-ai-data-center-capacity-in-india-eyes-1gw/">secure 100 megawatts’ worth of AI compute capacity</a> and distribute ChatGPT Enterprise within Tata’s IT services subsidiary, TCS.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The AI lab has signed agreements with <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-with-pine-labs-fintech-partnership/">fintech Pine Labs</a>, travel platforms Ixigo and MakeMyTrip, and food and grocery delivery company Eternal. It has also partnered with educational institutes to distribute its tools <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-pushes-into-higher-education-as-india-seeks-to-scale-ai-skills/">to more than 100,000 students over the next six years</a>.</p>
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