India is the second-biggest market for OpenAI and may become the largest: Sam Altman

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman appeared on Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath’s podcast and gushed about his company’s latest large language model (LLM), GPT-5, saying that working on it feels like having “PhD-level experts” available to the user at all times.

“The thing that has been most striking for me is in ways that are both big and small, going back from GPT-5 to our previous generation model, is painful. They are worse at everything. And I’ve taken for granted that there is a fluency and a depth of intelligence with GPT-5 that we haven’t had in any previous model,” he told Kamath.

He said GPT-5 is like an expert not only to ask anything but also to do anything for you. “So if you need a piece of software created, it can do it from scratch. If you need a research report on some complicated topic or if you needed to plan an event for you, it could do that, too.”

He reiterated that India is the second-biggest market for OpenAI and may become the largest. Altman also noted that the company has taken a lot of user feedback about its models from Indian users. “Better support for languages, affordable access etc. has been added based on user feedback to GPT-5,” he said.

OpenAI launched GPT-5, which it claims is the smartest and most capable version of its AI models to date, on August 8. The company said the new model is more accurate, more efficient, and has significantly lower hallucination rates than previous versions.

GPT-5 introduces a more intelligent system that simplifies how the model works behind the scenes. Instead of users needing to choose between versions such as Turbo or Standard, the system now automatically selects the best fit based on the task.

“We think GPT-5 will be a huge step forward in the way we use these systems. Each time we had one of these, we were amazed by what it unlocked,” he said.

However, the much-awaited model has been facing mixed reactions on the internet. Some users said that the new model felt like a “downgrade,” while others called it “dumber” than previous versions.

During a Reddit ‘Ask me anything’ (AMA) session on Friday, Altman and members of the GPT-5 team received a wave of feedback from users. Many were unhappy with the new model and asked for GPT-4o to be brought back, especially those who had built their workflows around it.

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