--- title: "OpenAI hires Uber India's chief as its first managing director for the country" url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-hires-uber-india-s-chief-as-its-first-managing-director-for-the-country-fgibfpnzz source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-india-managing-director-prabhjeet-singh-uber type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-06-27T14:19:54.460Z updated: 2026-06-27T14:20:14.895Z tags: ["openai", "chatgpt", "anthropic"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI hires Uber India's chief as its first managing director for the country **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former president of Uber India and South Asia, as its first managing director for India, starting September. Singh will oversee consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations in India — OpenAI's second-largest market with 100 million weekly ChatGPT users. The hire is part of a broader push into India that includes new offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, plus partnerships with Pine Labs, JioHotStar, and Tata Group. The move comes amid intensifying competition from Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and domestic AI players like Sarvam, as well as growing geopolitical concerns around AI sovereignty following the US suspension of Anthropic's models for non-US users. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the U.S.](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-poaches-uber-india-chief-to-lead-its-biggest-market-outside-the-u-s--vkszski1y) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-pushes-into-higher-education-as-india-seeks-to-scale-ai-skills-xyiufilyo) · TechCrunch · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-hires-uber-india-s-chief-as-its-first-managing-director-for-the-country-fgibfpnzz)