{"id":224178,"date":"2026-02-20T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-account-for-nearly-50-of-chatgpt-usage-in-india-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:57:03","slug":"openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-account-for-nearly-50-of-chatgpt-usage-in-india-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-account-for-nearly-50-of-chatgpt-usage-in-india-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says 18- to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI seems to have found product-market fit with young Indians. The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age accounted for nearly 50% of messages sent to ChatGPT in the country, and users under 30 accounted for 80%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI lab said Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work, with 35% of all messages relating to professional tasks, compared to 30% globally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, the company\u2019s coding assistant, Codex, is seeing strong traction: OpenAI said Indians use Codex three times more than the global median, and weekly usage has increased by four times since the tool <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/02\/openai-launches-new-macos-app-for-agentic-coding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got a Mac app<\/a> two weeks ago. Users in India are also asking three times as many coding-related questions as the median.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is in line with findings from Anthropic, which earlier this week said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/research\/india-brief-economic-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">45.2% of Claude\u2019s tasks map to software-related use cases<\/a> in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI said outside of work tasks, 35% of messages to ChatGPT from Indians requested guidance, 20% concerned questions about general information, and 20% were requests for the bot to produce or help with writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India is OpenAI\u2019s second-largest market with more than 100 million weekly users, and the company has been actively trying to court Indians for its AI tools and services. The company offers <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/18\/openai-launches-a-sub-5-chatgpt-plan-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sub-$5 subscription tier<\/a> in the country, and last year even <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/27\/openai-offers-free-chatgpt-go-for-one-year-to-all-users-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ran promotional campaigns<\/a> to spur adoption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAI adoption is moving faster than our ability to measure it \u2013 and that\u2019s a challenge for anyone trying to make smart decisions. Signals is our way of putting real-world evidence on the table, so India\u2019s AI debate can be grounded in facts, not hype,\u201d OpenAI\u2019s chief economist Ronnie Chatterji said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">June 9, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI has had a busy few days in India, which is hosting a major <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/16\/all-the-important-news-from-the-ongoing-india-ai-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI Impact Summit<\/a> in New Delhi this week. The company is opening new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru this year, and has signed a major partnership with conglomerate Tata Group to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/18\/openai-taps-tata-for-100mw-ai-data-center-capacity-in-india-eyes-1gw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secure 100 megawatts\u2019 worth of AI compute capacity<\/a> and distribute ChatGPT Enterprise within Tata\u2019s IT services subsidiary, TCS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI lab has signed agreements with <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/18\/openai-deepens-india-push-with-pine-labs-fintech-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fintech Pine Labs<\/a>, travel platforms Ixigo and MakeMyTrip, and food and grocery delivery company Eternal. It has also partnered with educational institutes to distribute its tools <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/18\/openai-pushes-into-higher-education-as-india-seeks-to-scale-ai-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to more than 100,000 students over the next six years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/20\/openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-account-for-nearly-50-of-chatgpt-usage-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI seems to have found product-market fit with young Indians. The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age accounted for nearly 50% of messages sent to ChatGPT in the country, and users under 30 accounted for 80%. The AI lab said Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work, with 35% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}