OpenAI brings local AI processing to India for eligible API users
The launch covers direct API usage, and for now, local processing supports GPT-6 Luna input and output through the Responses and Chat Completions APIs. Recently, it announced a similar residency capability was also made available on certain models in AWS Bedrock. That announcement included a partnership with Tata Group to develop domestic AI data centre capacity. Customers can get started by creating a new API project with India selected for both storage and processing, and using the corresponding India regional endpoint.
Today’s API launch advances the broader objective of making AI more useful and accessible to organisations building in India.
Available initially for the GPT-6 Luna model, the offering, the company said, builds on OpenAI’s existing data residency options in India and helps organisations adopt AI for work that requires in-country processing. OpenAI has announced that eligible businesses and developers can now process supported AI requests through the OpenAI API within India. Earlier this year, OpenAI introduced OpenAI for India, an initiative spanning AI infrastructure, enterprise adoption, skills and local partnerships.
“Some Indian businesses have not fully deployed AI for important work because they need the information involved to be processed within the country,” said Nitin Bawankule, Head of Enterprise – India, OpenAI. “Local inference gives them more control over where supported workloads run and helps address a practical barrier to adoption. It gives more businesses a way to put OpenAI’s tools to work, and gives Indian developers and startups more scope to build for their own, and enterprise needs.