OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India

Source: TechCrunch

Usage demographics

• 18‑24 years: ~50 % of messages
• Under 30: ~80 % of messages

Work‑related usage

• 35 % of all messages from India relate to professional tasks, compared with 30 % globally.

Coding assistant Codex

• Indian users employ Codex three times more than the global median.
• Weekly usage has jumped fourfold since the tool’s Mac app launch two weeks ago.
• Coding‑related queries are three times as common in India as the median.

Comparison with Anthropic

Anthropic recently noted that 45.2 % of Claude’s tasks in India map to software‑related use cases.
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Non‑work usage breakdown

• 35 % of messages request guidance.
• 20 % ask general‑information questions.
• 20 % involve writing assistance or content generation.

Market presence in India

• India is OpenAI’s second‑largest market, with 100 million+ weekly users.
• The company offers a sub‑$5 subscription tier (OpenAI launches sub‑$5 ChatGPT plan in India) and ran promotional campaigns last year to boost adoption (Free ChatGPT Go for one year in India).

“AI adoption is moving faster than our ability to measure it – and that’s a challenge for anyone trying to make smart decisions. Signals is our way of putting real‑world evidence on the table, so India’s AI debate can be grounded in facts, not hype,” — Ronnie Chatterji, OpenAI chief economist.

Recent developments in India

• OpenAI is participating in the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi (All the important news from the ongoing India AI summit).
• New offices are slated for Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.
• A partnership with Tata Group will secure 100 MW of AI compute capacity and distribute ChatGPT Enterprise through Tata’s IT services subsidiary, TCS (OpenAI taps Tata for 100 MW AI data‑center capacity in India, eyes 1 GW).
• Agreements have been signed with fintech Pine Labs, travel platforms Ixigo and MakeMyTrip, and food‑grocery delivery company Eternal.
• OpenAI will provide its tools to over 100,000 students across Indian educational institutes over the next six years (OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills).