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OpenAI partners with Tata to boost India's AI infrastructure

OpenAI partners with Tata Group to boost AI capacity in India

OpenAI is partnering with Indian conglomerate Tata Group to expand access to AI in India with an initiative to develop local, AI-ready data centre capacity as part of OpenAI’s global Stargate initiative.

OpenAI launched its “OpenAI for India” initiative at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in Delhi on Wednesday in partnership with Tata. Under the partnership deal, OpenAI become the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault data centre business, starting with 100 MW of capacity, and possibly scaling up to 1GW in the future.

OpenAI said the HyperVault capacity will enable its most advanced models to run securely in India, delivering lower latency while meeting data residency, security, and compliance requirements for mission-critical and government workloads.

OpenAI launched its US$500 million Stargate project – backed by heavy hitters like Oracle and SoftBank – at the start of 2025 with the goal of expanding its AI infrastructure in the US to 10GW by 2029. In May 2025, OpenAI upgraded Stargate to a global undertaking with a new initiative called OpenAI for Countries that aims to form partnerships in other countries to help develop their own AI infrastructure.

Meanwhile, as part the “OpenAI for India” initiative, Tata Group said it will deploy OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise across its organisation over the next several years, starting with hundreds of thousands of TCS employees. TCS will use OpenAI’s Codex to standardize AI-native software development across teams.

While OpenAI has partnered with other Indian enterprises to adopt ChatGPT, including JioHotstar, Pine Labs, Cars24, HCLTech, PhonePe and MakeMyTrip, it claims the TCS deployment will be one of the largest enterprise AI deployments in the world.

OpenAI also said it will expand its OpenAI Certifications programme to India to boost employee AI skillsets, with TCS becoming the first participating organization outside the US. OpenAI also announced partnerships with educational institutions to provide over 100,000 ChatGPT Edu licenses to help give students “workforce-relevant” skills.

OpenAI also plans to open new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year, alongside its existing office in New Delhi.

“India is already leading the way in AI adoption, and with its homegrown tech talent, optimism about what AI can do for the country, and strong government support, it is well placed to help shape its future and how democratic AI is adopted at scale,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (pictured, right) in a statement.

Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran (pictured, left) said the collaboration between OpenAI and Tata Group “marks a major milestone in India’s vision to become a global leader in AI.”

It’s also welcome news for TCS, which established HyperVault last year with the vision of delivering AI-ready gigawatt-level infrastructure for hyperscalers, AI companies and global enterprises.

Earlier this week, TCS and AMD struck a deal to co-develop a rack-scale AI infrastructure design for HyperVault based on the AMD Helios platform.



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