Prabhjeet Singh, Uber’s India head, has quit the ride-hailing company after an 11-year stint to join ChatGPT maker OpenAI as its managing director in the country. Singh announced his decision to leave Uber in an email to employees on Friday.
He will join OpenAI in September, the artificial intelligence company said in a statement.
"Prabhjeet will be OpenAI's most senior leader in India, with responsibility for our performance across consumer growth, enterprise adoption and partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations," the statement added. India is one of the largest markets of ChatGPT in terms of weekly active users and is a top-five country for users of its application programming interface.
"His focus will include building partnerships and supporting India's wider AI ecosystem, while helping more consumers, businesses, institutions and government bodies benefit from AI," the statement said. Singh will report to OpenAI's Asia Pacific MD Kiran Mani, who joined the company earlier this year from JioHotstar.
Singh's appointment as OpenAI's India head comes just six months after rival Anthropic roped in Microsoft veteran Irina Ghose to lead its operations in the country.
Over the past year, OpenAI has been making a broader push to expand its international footprint. Since opening its Tokyo office in April 2024, OpenAI has established a growing presence across the region, including offices in Singapore, Australia, Korea, and India . The company is also increasingly partnering with enterprises and organisations across APAC to deploy AI tools at scale and integrate advanced models into products and services.
