Railway and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared his excitement of meeting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with a tweet on his X Profile.

Vaishnaw outlined India’s AI-driven initiatives spanning healthcare, education, agriculture, weather forecasting, disaster management and transportation.

The minister said that the OpenAI CEO appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of democratising technology.

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw meets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss India's AI ecosystem and collaboration for cost-effective AI solutions.

Vaishnaw said in a post on X that he had a "super cool discussion" with Altman on India's "strategy of creating the entire AI stack - GPUs, model, and apps" and that OpenAI was willing to collaborate on all three.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday said India is now OpenAI’s second-largest market by number of users, which have tripled in the past year. Altman met with India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and discussed India's plan of creating a low-cost AI ecosystem.