--- title: OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest... description: OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former Uber India and South Asia president, as its first managing director for India. Singh will join in September and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-poaches-uber-india-chief-to-lead-its-biggest-market-outside-the-u-s--vkszski1y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the U.S. | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former Uber India and South Asia president, as its first managing director for India. Singh will join in September and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-poaches-uber-india-chief-to-lead-its-biggest-market-outside-the-u-s--vkszski1y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vKSzSKi1Y.png og:image:alt: OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the U.S. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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 poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the U.S. **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former Uber India and South Asia president, as its first managing director for India. Singh will join in September and report to OpenAI's Asia-Pacific head. The move underscores OpenAI's aggressive India strategy, which includes offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, partnerships with Reliance and Tata Group across fintech, education, and streaming, and a growing data center footprint. India is OpenAI's second-largest market after the U.S., with 18-24 year olds driving nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage there. Rival Anthropic has also established an India presence, naming a former Microsoft India MD as its local head. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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