OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman met with India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday and discussed India's plan of creating a low-cost AI ecosystem.

Sam Altman said that India is a crucial market for AI, especially for OpenAI, and should be a leading force in the AI revolution. He expressed amazement at how the country has embraced the technology and built an entire ecosystem around it.

Altman, during a fireside chat with IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, gave a ringing endorsement of India's efforts in building on AI at all levels of the stack, chips, models and "the incredible applicat