India, Feb. 4 -- OpenAI chief Sam Altman is likely to visit India on Wednesday, media reports said.

Altman's visit to India is coming at a time when his ChatGPT is perhaps facing a challenge from Chinese firm DeepSeek's AI chatbot.

The launch of the affordable Chinese AI chatbot R1 opened the market that was so far dominated by the US companies.

Contrary to the high-cost AI chatbot models like ChatGPT, DeepSeek is believed to have created its own chatbot for less than $6 million.

Surprising the US tech industry, R1 even overtook ChatGPT to become a top free app on Apple's App Store.

Following the launch, tech major NVIDIA suffered a staggering $590 billion loss in market value.

Ahead of his possible India visit, Sam Altman was in Ja...