NEW DELHI, Feb. 5 -- OpenAI chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Altman on Wednesday called India an incredible market for artificial intelligence (AI) in general. He said Indian users of OpenAI have tripled in the last year. Altman, who is in India, spoke to HT on ChatGPT's future plans for India, artificial general intelligence and DeepResearch. Edited excerpts:

I'm sure you've been looking at the announcements that India has made on its AI program. You were here sometime back and you made these comments - about how India was better off not trying to do its own frontier model -- that became controversial. Has your view changed? And do you think the Indian AI plan is on the right track?

That was in a different context . That was a differe...