India, Feb. 6 -- OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman said that India is an "incredibly important" market for the artificial intelligence (AI) giant.

During a fireside chat with information technology (IT) minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday (February 5), Altman said that India should be one of the leaders of the AI revolution. He said it is "really quite amazing" for him to witness the way the country has so far embraced the technology and built use cases on top of existing large language models (LLMs).

The OpenAI CEO also noted that India is OpenAI's second biggest market globally, adding that the number of users in the country have tripled in the past year.

Responding to a question about what aspects India should focus on on the AI ...