In order to assist businesses utilizing OpenAI products in meeting local data sovereignty requirements when implementing OpenAI products in their operations and developing new AI solutions, the company announced on Thursday that the data of Indian ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and OpenAI API (application programming interface) Platform users will now be stored locally in the nation.
Conversations with ChatGPT and custom GPTs in their appropriate Enterprise or Edu workspaces, including user prompts, uploaded files, and content across text, vision, and picture modalities, will all be saved in India for ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu users in India.
By starting a new project on the API Platform dashboard and choosing the appropriate nation, eligible ChatGPT API Platform users can enable data residency. According to OpenAI, “the chosen region will currently house the data storage for the API Platform.”
In February, Business Standard stated that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has started the process of establishing data center operations in India in order to accommodate the country’s expanding user base and the increasing volume of significant use cases for its artificial intelligence technologies.
During his visit to India in February, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the country has become the company’s second-largest market and that its user base has quadrupled since 2024.
“Seeing what people are building in India with AI at all the levels of stack, chips, models… you know all of the incredible applications, I think India should be doing everything. It is really quite amazing to see what the country has done and embraced the technology,” Altman had said during his India visit on 5 February.
Following Altman’s visit, OpenAI executives met with government representatives from the Prime Minister’s Office, the US Embassy in India, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Home Affairs. Later that week, TQH (The Quantum Hub) organized a second meeting with advocacy groups for technology policy.
Sources later informed BS that at each of these private sessions, OpenAI executives—including vice-president of engineering Srinivas Narayanan—explained the company’s offers and products as well as the significance of the nation to the company’s broader goals.
A data residency scheme for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and API Platform customers in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea was also announced by OpenAI on Thursday, in addition to India. Similar data residency programs were previously introduced by the corporation in Europe.
“Data residency builds on OpenAI’s robust data privacy, security, and compliance features, which support hundreds of organisations partnering with OpenAI across Asia today—from start-ups and large enterprises to academic institutions—including Kakao, SoftBank, Grab, Singapore Airlines, and many more,” the company said in a blog post.
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