New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- It's a reasonable hope that no single platform comes to dominate India's adoption of AI chatbots. Social media saw free services join forces with network effects to place all major formats under the control of X and Meta's three popular platforms. November data from a report by Bank of America Securities suggests that we might escape that fate in the AI chatbot space.

Though telecom bundles may be shaping some usage choices, Indian users seem disproportionately drawn to bots other than ChatGPT, run by market leader OpenAI. India accounts for 16% of ChatGPT's global base of monthly active users, placed at 850-900 million, but 31% of Google-run Gemini's 300-350 million and 38% of Perplexity's 50 million.

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