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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
OpenAI may soon let you 'sign in with ChatGPT' for other apps
OpenAI is exploring ways for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT account, the company noted on a web page published Tuesday. OpenAI is currently gauging interest from developers who might want to integrate this service into their apps. ChatGPT is quickly becoming one of the largest consumer applications in the world, now with roughly 600 million monthly active users. To capitalize on this popularity, OpenAI seems eager to try and expand into other consumer areas, such as online shopping, social media, and personal devices. A potential "Sign in with ChatGPT" feature could help OpenAI compete with other massive consumer technology companies — such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft — that help people with a wide range of online services, including a quick way to sign in to third-party apps. Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a preview of the "Sign in with ChatGPT" experience for developers in Codex CLI, the company's open source AI coding tool for terminals. The feature let developers connect their ChatGPT Free, Plus, or Pro accounts to their API accounts. OpenAI offered Plus users $5 in API credits to sign in with ChatGPT, and Pro users $50 in API credits. OpenAI seems to be interested in integrating the sign-in service with a broad array of companies. The developer interest form asks for companies to specify their app's user base, ranging from tiny companies with fewer than 1,000 weekly users to massive apps with over 100 million weekly users. The form also asks developers how they charge for AI features today and whether they're customers of the OpenAI API. CEO Sam Altman noted in 2023 that the company may look into a "sign in with OpenAI" feature in 2024. However, it now appears OpenAI is more seriously building out the capability today, in 2025. It's unclear when the sign-in feature would go live for users of ChatGPT or how many companies have signed up to be part of it. OpenAI did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's request for comment. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at
Time of India
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
ET Explainer: What OpenAI's local data residency means for India
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI earlier this month enabled local data residency in key Asian countries including India—its second largest market—and Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. This was in a bid to help organisations who want to leverage its ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the OpenAI API (application programming interface) offerings, but also have data localisation requirements. ET explains what this move means for Indian businesses and whether data sovereignty is on the horizon. What does OpenAI's data residency policy mean for India? The feature allows 'data at rest' such as prompts, uploaded files, and chat interactions to be stored within India. But, models still reside in foreign servers and processing enterprise information at inference time (run-time) will need exchange outside India servers. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track default , selected Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Data localisation has until now prevented OpenAI from gaining market share in India as BFSI customers opted to host open models like Meta's Llama and DeepSeek on-premise. According to Aadya Misra, Partner at Spice Route Legal, 'OpenAI's residency option could allow financial institutions to deploy AI for use cases like payment processing while remaining compliant with existing requirements that require payment data to be stored locally.' She explained that the Reserve Bank of India does permit transient cross-border processing under certain conditions, 'so if implemented thoughtfully, concerns about data in motion could also be addressed. This move could shift reliance on self-hosted open-source models to enterprise-grade and centrally managed AI solutions.' Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories Does this spell data sovereignty for India? The move may at best be seen as a first step towards compliance-enablement that could help companies to bolster contracts with responsible data handling clauses. It has fallen short of complete data sovereignty, however, experts said. 'The architecture stores data 'at rest' locally, but not necessarily 'in transit' or during model inference. That data may still leave the country, exposing enterprises to regulatory scrutiny,' said Leslie Joseph, principal analyst at Forrester. Joseph noted that OpenAI has not announced local hosting of its GPT models or inference engines in India. 'There's no evidence of compute or model weights residing in-country. This is partial localisation at best, not sovereign AI,' Joseph added. He explained that although OpenAI has added AES-256 level encryption for data at rest and TLS 1.2+ for data in transit, without full model localisation, including inference compute, enterprises handling PII (personally identifiable information) will continue to face regulatory and data exposure concerns. '...There is no explicit indication that the underlying GPT models, including their inference engines, tokens, or trained weights, will themselves be hosted in India,' said Ankit Sahni, Partner at Ajay Sahni & Associates. What impact could the move have? Speculation remains that OpenAI may eventually bring full-stack model hosting to India, given its enterprise ambitions and steady competition from cost-effective open-weight models. For now, experts say companies must treat this as a 'compliance-forward gesture.' It could also mean opportunities for Indian data centre players. Although the company is likely to host local storage within its long-time exclusive partner Microsoft's data centres, sources told ET that OpenAI is hearing proposals from other colocation data centres in India as well. 'Given OpenAI's shift to a for-profit structure and changing dynamics with Microsoft, we are actively seizing this opportunity to commit to a long-term relationship with them,' the senior executive at a leading data centre company told ET. Annapurna Roy contributed to this story.
TechCrunch
08-05-2025
- Business
- TechCrunch
OpenAI launches a data residency program in Asia
In Brief OpenAI is introducing a new data residency program in Asia, the company announced Thursday, following the rollout of its data residency program in Europe in February. The new program, which is available for OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the OpenAI API, aims to help Asia-based organizations meet local data sovereignty requirements while using the AI company's products. Eligible API customers and new ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu subscribers can choose to have their data stored at rest in supported countries: Japan, India, Singapore, and South Korea. 'For the API platform and ChatGPT business products, data remains confidential, secure, and entirely owned by you,' wrote OpenAI in a blog post. 'Data residency further enhances data control for organizations.' The debut of the Asia data residency program comes as OpenAI looks to accelerate its expansion abroad. This week, the company announced OpenAI for Countries, an initiative OpenAI says will enable it to build out the infrastructure needed to better serve international clientele.
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Business Standard
08-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
OpenAI starts data centre operations in India, to host data locally
The data of Indian ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the OpenAI API (application programming interface) Platform users will now be stored locally in the country to help companies using these products meet local data sovereignty requirements when using OpenAI products in their businesses and building new solutions with AI, the company said on Thursday. Eligible customers of the ChatGPT API Platform can enable data residency by creating a new project in the API Platform dashboard and selecting the relevant country. 'Currently, data storage for the API Platform will be stored in the selected region,' OpenAI said. Business Standard had in February reported that ChatGPT maker OpenAI had initiated the process of setting up data centre operations in India to support the growing number of users and burgeoning load of the extensive use cases of its artificial intelligence tools in the country. India has grown to be the second-largest market for OpenAI, and the number of users in the country tripled over 2024, the company's chief executive officer Sam Altman had said during his visit to the country in February. 'Seeing what people are building in India with AI at all the levels of stack, chips, models… you know all of the incredible applications, I think India should be doing everything. It is really quite amazing to see what the country has done and embraced the technology,' Altman had said during his India visit on 5 February. After Altman's visit, OpenAI executives had later that week held two separate meetings—the first with government officials from the Prime Minister's Office, the US Embassy in India, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Home Affairs, and a second one with technology policy advocacy groups, which was organised by TQH (The Quantum Hub). Both these meetings, held behind closed doors, also saw OpenAI executives, including vice-president of engineering Srinivas Narayanan, explain the products and offerings and the importance of the country in the overall plans of the company, sources had then told BS. On Thursday, apart from India, OpenAI also announced a data residency programme for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and API Platform users in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. The company had earlier announced similar data residency programmes in Europe. 'Data residency builds on OpenAI's robust data privacy, security, and compliance features, which support hundreds of organisations partnering with OpenAI across Asia today—from start-ups and large enterprises to academic institutions—including Kakao, SoftBank, Grab, Singapore Airlines, and many more,' the company said in a blog post.
Fox News
19-02-2025
- Business
- Fox News
ChatGPT will now combat bias with new measures put forth by OpenAI
OpenAI has announced a set of new measures to combat bias within its suite of products, including ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence (AI) company recently unveiled an updated Model Spec, a document that defines how OpenAI wants its models to behave in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. The company says this iteration of the Model Spec builds on the foundational version released last May. "I think with a tool as powerful as this, one where people can access all sorts of different information, if you really believe we're moving to artificial general intelligence (AGI) one day, you have to be willing to share how you're steering the model," Laurentia Romaniuk, who works on model behavior at OpenAI, told Fox News Digital. "People should be allowed to know what goes into the way these models respond and how the thoughts coming out of the model are crafted," she continued. While some have argued that GPT-4o, the latest version of the technology, appears close to AGI, others say it will be years or decades before the technology reaches human-like abilities. There is no single agreed upon definition of AGI, but a 2020 report from consulting giant McKinsey said a true AGI would need to master skills like sensory perception, fine motor skills, and natural language understanding. Today, generative AI is the dominant form of this technology, with the ability to produce content including text, images and more. Generative AI, like chatbots, uses datasets with specific information to complete tasks and cannot go beyond the provided data. They are also susceptible to bias in their datasets, whether intentional or accidental. To better understand real-world performance and address bias, OpenAI has begun measuring progress by gathering a challenging set of prompts designed to test how well the models adhere to each principle in the Model Spec, essentially acting as a testing metric. According to Joanne Jang, who leads the product for model behavior at OpenAI, the challenge with large language models is that they are rarely deterministic. Jang stressed that one benefit of the Model Spec is that it clarifies the intended behavior, so everyone can understand and then debate it. "When there are bugs in the behavior where a model output doesn't resonate or doesn't align with the [Model] Spec, then the public knows this is something we're working towards, and it's an ongoing area of science," she told Fox News Digital. OpenAI says they also attempt to assume an objective point of view in their AI prompts and consciously avoid any agenda. For example, when a user asks if it is better to adopt a dog or get one from a breeder, ChatGPT provides both sides of the argument, highlighting the pros and cons of each. According to OpenAI, a non-compliant AI answer that violates the Model Spec would provide what it believes to be the better choice and engage in an "overly moralistic tone" that might alienate those considering breeders for valid reasons. As each AI system advances, OpenAI says it will iterate these principles, invite community feedback, and share progress openly. OpenAI released this version of the Model Spec into the public domain under a Creative Commons license to support broad use and collaboration. This means developers and researchers can freely use and adapt the current metrics and help improve model behavior. OpenAI says this update reinforces its belief in open exploration and discussion, with an emphasis on user and developer control and guardrails to prevent harm. Romaniuk concludes that public discourse cannot exist without transparency, reinforcing the need for the Model Spec and community engagement. "Ultimately, we believe in the intellectual freedom to think, speak and share without restriction. We want to make sure that users have that ability and that's what it's all about," she said.
