India’s AI adoption ‘outpacing the world’, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman amid viral Ghibli-style image trend

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has praised the pace of AI adoption in India, saying it is “outpacing the world”. Altman’s comments come amid the viral trend of Studio Ghibli-style images taking over the internet (particularly among Indian audiences) after OpenAI unlocked native image generation capabilities in the GPT-4o language model running ChatGPT.

“what’s happening with ai adoption in india right now is amazing to watch. we love to see the explosion of creativity–india is outpacing the world.” Altman wrote in a post on X.