OpenAI는 ET Datacenters의 보도에 따라 인도 기업을 대상으로 현지 API 데이터 처리 서비스를 제공할 예정이다.

OpenAI announced that data submitted through its application programming interfaces (APIs) in India will now be processed within the country.

The company also stated that inference for supported API workloads will take place in India. The offering is initially available for the GPT-6 Luna model and builds on OpenAI's existing data residency options in the country.

The move aims to help Indian organisations adopt artificial intelligence (AI) for work that requires in-country processing. Companies in the financial technology (fintech) sector are likely to benefit, as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandates local data processing and storage.

Nitin Bawankule, head of enterprise at OpenAI India, stated that local inference gives businesses more control over supported workloads. He added that it helps address a practical barrier to AI adoption, giving Indian developers and startups more scope to build solutions.

OpenAI first offered data residency in India in May last year for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the OpenAI API Platform. That earlier initiative was designed to help organisations meet local data sovereignty requirements when using OpenAI products.

The recent announcement extends these provisions, ensuring that the processing of API requests and the model computations that generate responses occur on Indian servers. Supported customer content is also stored in-country, assisting businesses with text-based AI tasks such as summarising documents and drafting responses.

As part of its broader "OpenAI for India" initiative, launched last year, the company partnered with the Tata Group. The partnership focused on developing domestic AI data centre capacity.