New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- Earlier this week, Sam Altman, who at this point doesn't need an introduction, was asked what he thought of India's AI market-even as he geared up to launch OpenAI's biggest AI model, GPT-5.

His answer: India is soon to become the American artificial intelligence company's largest market globally, and bringing their products here is a priority strategy decision for the company.

To be frank, this isn't exactly a major surprise. In May, I got a chance to meet Sundar Pichai. The Google CEO, too, was bullish on India-a stance that the search-engine company has followed up by chasing Indian developers and companies more intensely over the past quarter.

But if you've followed the rise of technology in its tremendous nat...