New Delhi/Bengaluru, Nov. 5 -- OpenAI, the world's most valuable artificial intelligence (AI) startup and maker of ChatGPT, has begun hiring engineers in India as it looks to deepen its presence-especially in the enterprise segment-in what has become its largest market outside the US by user base.

Speaking at a media roundtable in Bengaluru on Tuesday, Srinivas Narayanan, chief technology officer for business applications of the San Francisco-based company and Pragya Misra, head of strategy and global affairs for India, said the company has started hiring solutions engineers in its India team.

While they did not call out any hiring figures, they said the plan is to keep a "lean team" in the first year of setting up an office in the coun...