India, Aug. 27 -- Picture this: Shaig Abduragimov, a solutions engineer at OpenAI, flying from London to New Delhi to present a product he has been building. As he speaks, a South Delhi school principal is frantically taking notes.

This was OpenAI's formal entry into India's edtech sector. The AI giant, which is preparing to open its New Delhi office, invited leading institutions, universities, edtech startup founders, and well-known educators such as Anand Kumar of Super 30 to a small gathering in the capital.

The event, titled "Education Summit, India" showed off OpenAI's plans for products and the leadership for the Indian education vertical.

Leah Belsky, OpenAI's Vice-President of Education and a former Coursera managing director, ...