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

OpenAI seems to have found a product market fit for Indian youth. Users between the ages of 18 and 24 account for nearly 50% of messages sent to ChatGPT in the country, and users under 30 account for 80%, the company said on Friday.

The AI ​​Lab said Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work, with 35% of all messages related to professional tasks, compared to 30% globally.

In particular, the company’s programming assistant, Codex, is seeing strong traction: OpenAI said Indians use Codex three times more than the global average, and weekly usage has increased four times since using the tool. I got a Mac application Two weeks ago. Users in India also ask three times as many programming-related questions as the average.

This is in line with Antropic’s findings, which it said earlier this week 45.2% of Cloud’s tasks are related to software-related use cases In India.

OpenAI said that outside of work tasks, 35% of messages sent to ChatGPT from Indians asked for guidance, 20% related to questions about general information, and 20% were requests for the bot to produce or assist with writing.

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market with over 100 million weekly users, and the company is trying hard to attract Indians for its AI tools and services. Company progress Subscription tier under $5 In the country, until last year Conducted promotional campaigns To stimulate adoption.

“AI adoption is moving faster than our ability to measure it — and that presents a challenge for anyone trying to make smart decisions. Signals are our way of putting real-world evidence on the table, so the AI ​​debate in India can be grounded in facts, not hype,” Ronnie Chatterjee, chief economist at OpenAI, said in a statement.

OpenAI has had a busy few days in India, which hosts a major Artificial Intelligence Impact Summit In New Delhi this week. The company is opening new offices in Mumbai and Bangalore this year, and has signed a major partnership with the giant Tata group Securing 100 megawatts worth of AI computing power ChatGPT Enterprise is distributed under Tata IT Services subsidiary TCS.

The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has signed agreements with Bain Fintech LabsTravel platforms Ixigo and Makemytrip and food and grocery delivery company Eternal. It also entered into a partnership with educational institutes to distribute its tools For more than 100,000 students over the next six years.