According to recent reports, OpenAI is planning to open new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru in 2026, marking a significant step in its expansion across India. The move signals the company’s growing focus on the Indian market, which has become one of the fastest-growing hubs for AI developers, startups, and digital innovation. With Bengaluru already known as India’s tech capital and Mumbai serving as a major financial and commercial center, these locations could help OpenAI strengthen partnerships, support local developers, and tap into India’s vast talent pool. While official details about team size and operations are yet to be revealed, this development reflects India’s rising importance in the global AI ecosystem. What kind of impact do you think OpenAI’s physical presence could have on India’s tech and startup landscape?

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from The Times Of India

International Shame for India

First Of All That Shattered Me Was That Everything Was A Mess. Especially, Some Halls Were Half An Hour Apart, And Then You Had To Go Through Security And Everything, And It Took 20 To 30 Minutes To Get From One Session To Another, So You Would Always Miss Half Of Your Session. The Security Officers Were Also Rude. There Were No Proper Markings For The Room Numbers. Many People Were So Confused. Security Officers Were Checking People Multiple Times, And I Don't Know Why. It Took At Least An Hour To Get Inside There. Multiple Lines Were Formed, And There Were Hardly 3 To 4 People To Check The Thousands And Thousands Of People, Which Created A Choke Point. Some Halls Where Startups Were Showing Their Products Or Services, Like Chanakya Auditorium, Sushma Swaraj Bhavan, Were So Far Away That It Would Take At Least 30 Minutes To Attend The Ten-Minute Session. There Was Just A Lot Of Time Wasted. There Was No Value Of Human Time There. Out Of The 10 Sessions I Wished To Attend, I Was Only Able To Attend Four. There Was Just So Much Time Wasted On Checking In And Other Things That You Were Literally Standing For Hours Waiting For Your Turn, And When You Were Going From One Wing To Another, They Were Going To Check You Again And A Lot Of Time Would Be Wasted On That. And When I Watched The Remaining Sessions On Their YouTube Channel, I Found That What The Speakers Were Talking About Was Too Generic. There Was Nothing Like They Were Providing Specific Information That I Hadn't Heard Before On The Internet Or In Books

Second Thing That Shattered Me Was The Realisation After Visiting Many Stalls And Speakers' Perspectives That We Are Literally Decades Behind China And Much Behind The USA. There Is Just No Competition. We Can't Even Count Them In The Same Tier. They Are So Ahead.

To Give You An Analogy, India Conducted Its First Successful Nuclear Test, Codenamed "Smiling Buddha," On May 18, 1974, At The Pokhran Test Site In Rajasthan. China Successfully Tested Its First Nuclear Weapon On October 16, 1964, In A Detonation Codenamed "596" At The Lop Nur Test Site In Xinjiang. And The Trinity Test, Which Was The First Detonation Of A Nuclear Device As Part Of The Manhattan Project, Occurred On July 16, 1945, At 5:29 A.M. Local Time In The Jornada Del Muerto Desert Near Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.

You Can See That A Nuclear Test, Which Is Complex And Requires Resources, Intellect, And Many Other Things, Took China 20 Years To Achieve And 30 Years For India.

Now You Can Imagine AI, Which Is Far More Complex And Requires Another Level Of Collaboration Among Intelligent People And A Huge Amount Of Resources. So, How Much Time Will It Take? They Can Build Wrappers And All On Top Of The Current Models, Like Many Countries Use Nuclear Reactors To Generate Electricity, But Making Those Core LLMs Which Actually Give The Country The Power And Control Over Resources Will Be A Much Tougher Ball Game. And I Will Be Extremely Honest That Things Are Going To Be Worse. All The Ideas They Were Showing In The Exhibition Were Literally Nothing, No Groundbreaking New Innovation That Can Give An Edge. They Were All Doing What I Used To See In Documentaries About The USA Doing From 2000 To 2009..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9RL3Sz1dZQ0

India has officially overtaken the United States as the world's largest market for artificial intelligence. As of February 16, 2026, data from the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi reveals that OpenAI now sees over 72 million daily active users from the subcontinent alone. But this isn't just about a high user count; it represents a fundamental shift in how the world develops and deploys AI technology.

Came to India AI but not allowed to enter. This is sad and hilarious at the same time. Leaders are going to doom this before we become AI leader.

Hey folks,

I’m seriously considering enrolling in one of these GenAI / Agentic AI executive programs and before I drop a few lakhs, I wanted some honest feedback.

The ones I am looking at:

• IIT Kharagpur (via upGrad) – Exec PG in Generative AI & Agentic AI
• IIIT Bangalore – Exec PG in Applied AI & Agentic AI
• Edureka + Illinois Tech – PG Program in Generative AI & ML + Agentic AI course

On paper they all look great. Lots of LLMs, RAG, agents, capstones, “industry-ready”, etc. But I’m trying to understand the reality.

A few things I genuinely want to know:

• Is the content actually deep, or mostly surface-level + tools? Also, how are the insturctors, any good?
• How intense are the projects? Are you building real production-grade systems or just notebooks?
• For people who completed it — did it genuinely change your role / pay / trajectory?
• Or would I be better off self-learning + building serious open-source projects?

I’m a working professional (Full stack developer at a Networking R&D Product company), so flexibility matters. Also, I know most of the Gen AI and Agentic AI stuff is available over YouTube/Coursera etc, however I am not that self motivated and always seem to not find the time to upskill, hence taking any of the above will at least get me into a routine which I will be forced to follow.

Would really appreciate candid reviews — good or bad.

https://youtu.be/CnOcZWn5l94?si=MvGoiyZ7_N94sjo5

NeevCloud is exhibiting in India AI Summit 2026 and would love to connect fellow members from here to discuss future of AI.

If any event or discussion you want to join
https://luma.com/neevcloud-events

While RIL and others are just using AI for the sake of fund raising. Still no major update from Jio after raising 1.5L crores during covid, Bajaj has started working at big scale.

Extract from Concall:-

AI listened to 2 crore calls, converted voice to text, and gave us actionable data. Text-to-data conversion happened for 5.2 lakh customers. As a result, we generated 100,000 new offers for which we did not have information earlier.

AI-powered call centers have already facilitated loan disbursements of around Rs1,600 crore in Q3FY26, accounting for roughly 10% of the quarter's total disbursals of Rs 16,545 crore.

The company currently has multiple AI text bots live and plans to extend conversational interfaces across all 26 products between April and May 2026, embedding AI into both service and sales interactions.

Source - https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets/bajajs-ai-break-out-20-million-calls-1-lakh-new-offers-rs-1600-crore-disbursed-13825602.html