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As part of the partnership, Pocket FM will use OpenAI’s APIs in different parts of its workflow to speed up content creation and production for its network of over 300,000 creators worldwide.

The partnership will develop industry-specific AI solutions for companies in India and abroad, with TCS and OpenAI jointly taking these offerings to market to help businesses deploy and scale AI effectively.

With this integration, Pine Labs becomes OpenAI’s first payments partner for ChatGPT in India, letting merchants on its network handle transactions initiated through AI-powered interfaces.

The initiative will benefit over 1 lakh students, faculty, and staff in the next year. It aims to go beyond just providing access to AI tools by fully integrating AI across campuses, with a strong focus on responsible use and academic integrity.

Currently in a pilot phase, the initiative will let users make purchases via ChatGPT using India’s UPI. The pilot aims to test how AI agents can safely and securely complete transactions on users’ behalf, while keeping control with the user.

Under the collaboration, IIT Madras will study how AI can improve learning and teaching, sharing results to guide future products. Notably, India has the largest ChatGPT student user base globally.

OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, plans to open its first office in Delhi later this year to strengthen ties with local businesses, developers, and universities.

The company has registered in India, started hiring a local team, and will work closely with partners, government, businesses, developers, and universities.

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it is supporting NextGenAI, a new consortium focused on AI-assisted research at top universities.

Microsoft-backed AI start-up OpenAI has introduced a new AI agent called "Deep Research" in ChatGPT. This tool uses a version of OpenAI’s upcoming o3 series reasoning model, allowing users to do multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks.