India, Feb. 5 -- OpenAI chief Sam Altman has said India is the second-largest market for his Artificial Intelligence firm which created ChatGPT.

"India is an incredibly important market for AI in general and OpenAI in particular. It is our second biggest market, we tripled our users here in the last year," Altman said during a fireside chat as quoted by The Indian Express.

Sam Altman, who has been visiting several nations in recent times, landed in India on Tuesday.

Altman also met Union Minister for Railways and Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw when they discussed the South Asian country's AI ecosystem vision.

He said Sam Altman appreciated Indian PM Narendra Modi's vision of democratising technology.

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