<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">OpenAI is making yet another big, visible bet on India. It has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for the country to scale its presence in what it has called its second-largest market after the U.S.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Singh, who announced his resignation from Uber on Friday, will join OpenAI in September and report to Kiran Mani, the company’s managing director for Asia Pacific, the company told TechCrunch. He will be responsible for OpenAI’s performance in India across consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations, the company said.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The hire marks OpenAI’s latest investment in India. The company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/openai-announces-new-delhi-office-as-it-expands-footprint-in-india/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">opened its first office in New Delhi</a> last August and earlier this year said it would <a href="https://openai.com/index/openai-for-india/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">establish new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru</a>. In 2024, it hired former Truecaller and Meta executive Pragya Misra to lead public policy and partnerships before expanding her role to head of strategy and global affairs last year. OpenAI had earlier <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/openai-india-rishi-jaitly-hiring/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">brought on former Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly</a> as a senior adviser to help establish its engagement with the Indian government on AI policy.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Over the past few months, OpenAI struck partnerships in the nation spanning <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-pushes-into-higher-education-as-india-seeks-to-scale-ai-skills/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">higher education</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-with-pine-labs-fintech-partnership/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">enterprise payments</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/india-pilots-ai-chatbot-led-e-commerce-with-chatgpt-gemini-claude-in-the-mix/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AI-powered commerce</a>, and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/openai-reliance-partner-to-add-ai-search-to-jiohotstar/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">web streaming</a>, while <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-tata-for-100mw-ai-data-center-capacity-in-india-eyes-1gw/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">also becoming part</a> of the country’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/amazon-ups-india-bet-with-fresh-13b-ai-infrastructure-investment/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">growing data center build-out</a>. OpenAI has pointed to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-account-for-nearly-50-of-chatgpt-usage-in-india/">India’s rapidly growing adoption of ChatGPT</a> as a sign of the market’s importance. Indian conglomerates Reliance and Tata Group are also among its early partners in the market.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The company has simultaneously ramped up hiring in India, with <a href="https://openai.com/careers/search/?l=28e2c82d-aa3c-4f77-8084-ebf8888b22cf%2Cd2b1576e-0e1e-4611-b587-6f65f326be14" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">openings</a> including AI deployment engineers, developer experience engineers, a developer marketing lead, a partner director, and solutions engineers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">India has emerged as one of the key battlegrounds for U.S. AI companies, driven by its vast developer base, more than a billion internet users, and surging demand for generative AI. Rival Anthropic <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/anthropic-plans-to-open-india-office-eyes-tie-up-with-billionaire-ambani/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">opened its India office in Bengaluru</a> in late 2025 and earlier this year <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/anthropic-taps-former-microsoft-india-md-to-lead-bengaluru-expansion/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">named former Microsoft India managing director Irina Ghose</a> as its India head.</p>
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