OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI hired Prabhjeet Singh to lead India, formalizing expansion in one of its largest growth markets.

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<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-poaches-uber-india-chief-to-lead-its-biggest-market-outside-the-u-s/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260626/i19.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260626/p19#a260626p19" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jagmeet Singh / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-poaches-uber-india-chief-to-lead-its-biggest-market-outside-the-u-s/">OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI is making yet another big, visible bet on India.&nbsp; It has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh &hellip; </p>