India's AI adoption 'Outpacing the World', says Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, amid viral Ghibli-style image trend | Mint

Openai CEO Sam Altman praised the pace of AI adoption in India and said it “surpassed the world”. Altman’s remarks come amid the viral tendency of Studio Ghibli-style images that take over the Internet (especially among Indian audiences) after opening indigenous image-generation capabilities in the GPT-4O language model running Chatgpt. “What is happening to AI adoption in India now is surprising to look at. We like to see the explosion of creativity-India is surpassing the world. ‘ Altman wrote in a post about X. Shortly thereafter, the CEO of Openai again made an effort to contact the Indian audience of his business by sharing an animated image of himself as an Indian cricketer. However, the CEO of Openai is not the first to connect cricket with Chatgpt’s new image generation capabilities. At the peak of the Studio Ghibli-style image trend, Indian fans took social media to recreate many well-known cricket moments in their history, from the 1983 and 2011 World Cup to more recent wins, such as the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 Champions Trophy. Ghibli style version of the Kapil Dev Ghibli style version of 2011 World Cup -Gibli style images of the Indian cricket team What did Sam Altman say during the visit to India? Sam Altman also emphasized the importance of the Indian market for the AI ​​Start during his visit to India in February this year, where he calls the country its second largest market after the US. ‘India is an incredibly important market for AI in general, in particular for Openai. This is our second largest market to the US. Users here have tripled over the past year. The innovation that happens, which people build [in India]It’s really incredible. We are excited to do a lot, much more here, and I think it is (the Indian AI program) a wonderful plan. “Altman said at the time.” I think India should be one of the leaders of the AI ​​revolution. It is really surprising to see what the country has done and embraces and builds the technology. ‘The CEO of Openai has added. Chatgpt’s viral Ghibli moment and what led to it? Chatgpt unlocked GPT-4O last week, which means Chatgpt can now generate images using its underlying base model, rather than relying on an external model like Dall-E 3 (also from Openai). Contextually conscious and nuanced images. In the launch of the launch, the new abilities used, including the creation of infographic, photoorealistic images of historical figures, the ability of the images, posters and even full PPT chips, the chatbot’s ability to drop the coins. News app to get daily market updates and live business news.