OpenAI deepened its push into India by rolling out ChatGPT Go, a low-cost subscription priced at ₹399 ($4.60) a month—roughly one-fifth of the company’s Plus tier. The entry-level plan, introduced on 19 August, lifts message and image-generation limits tenfold and offers faster responses from the GPT-5 model. OpenAI said the launch is aimed at the nation’s nearly one billion internet users, noting that weekly active ChatGPT users in India have quadrupled over the past year. Days later, the Microsoft-backed firm confirmed it will open its first Indian office in New Delhi later this year. Hiring has begun for policy and partnership roles, and the company plans to host an Education Summit this month followed by a Developer Day. “Opening our first office and building a local team is an important first step in our commitment to build AI for India, and with India,” Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said in a statement. Separately, Elon Musk’s startup xAI released the full weights of its Grok 2.5 large-language model—about 500 gigabytes—under an open-source licence on the Hugging Face platform. Musk added that Grok 3 will be opened within roughly six months, extending xAI’s pledge to make older iterations of its models freely available to researchers and developers. The move intensifies competition among generative-AI providers vying for users and developer mindshare with cheaper plans and greater model transparency.