New Delhi: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described his assembly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday as “nice” and highlighted the outstanding momentum of synthetic intelligence adoption in India because the nation hosts the India AI Influence Summit 2026 within the nationwide capital. In a submit on X, Altman mentioned that the nation is the fastest-growing marketplace for Codex, with 4 occasions the weekly customers previously two weeks.
“Nice assembly with PM Narendra Modi at this time to speak concerning the unbelievable power round AI in India. India is our fastest-growing marketplace for Codex globally, up 4x in weekly customers previously 2 weeks alone,” his submit learn.
The Codex is an AI coding associate from OpenAI, which acts as a command middle for agentic coding. Previous to his assembly with the OpenAI CEO, the Prime Minister met with Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm.
The Prime Minister met the Tech Giants on the Hyderabad Home. Earlier on Thursday, Altman hailed the India AI Influence Summit 2026 as a essential platform for worldwide cooperation.
Delivering his keynote handle on the Summit, Altman mentioned India’s fast adoption of AI applied sciences and its push towards sovereign AI infrastructure place it uniquely within the world expertise panorama.
“It is actually a deal with to be right here in India. And it is unbelievable to see the nation’s management in superior AI,” he mentioned.
“I used to be final right here a bit over a yr in the past, and it is putting how a lot progress has occurred since then. We have gone from AI methods that struggled with excessive school-level math to methods that may do research-level arithmetic now and derive novel leads to theoretical Physics,” he added.
Commenting on the current developments India has made within the area of AI, he mentioned, “It is also putting how a lot progress India has made in its mission to place AI to work for extra folks in additional elements of the nation. And India’s management in sovereign AI, constructing on infrastructure, SLMs, and far more, has been nice to observe. Greater than 100 million folks in India use ChatGPT each week. Greater than a 3rd of them are college students. India can also be the fastest-growing market now for Codex, our coding agent that works to assist folks develop software program quicker and higher.”
In the meantime, in a symbolic show of worldwide cooperation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined world leaders, heads of state, and world tech leaders for a conventional ‘household photograph’ at Bharat Mandapam on Thursday, marking a defining second of the Summit.
The group {photograph} featured the Prime Minister alongside distinguished figures of the worldwide expertise panorama, together with the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai; the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman; the Chief AI Officer of Meta, AlexandrWang; and the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei.