{"id":23591,"date":"2026-02-20T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:21:15","slug":"openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-account-for-nearly-50-of-chatgpt-usage-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23591","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India"},"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\/\">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 Antropic, which earlier this week said <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/research\/india-brief-economic-index\">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\/\">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\/\">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\/\">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\/\">secure 100 megawatts 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\/\">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\/\">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\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI seems to have found pro&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[725,11515,10266,703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}