India is OpenAI's second largest market in the world.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
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What would count as true or false
Judged as of 2025-08-14. True: data available then (OpenAI statements in official announcements, or third-party data such as app downloads, user counts or traffic from Sensor Tower, Similarweb and the like) shows India ranked second only to the US among countries in ChatGPT/OpenAI users. Mostly true: India is second by users but not by revenue, and the claim plausibly refers to users, or it is narrowly second on one major metric and roughly tied on another. Mixed: India is second on some major metrics and lower on others. Mostly false: India is in the top few but clearly not second on the main metrics. False: India is far from second.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 India may well become OpenAI’s largest market: CEO Sam Altman IANS (ianslive.in) · 8 August 2025
“India is OpenAI’s second-largest market in the world after the US, and it may well become its biggest market in the near future, according to its CEO Sam Altman.”
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E2 Sam Altman to Visit India Next Month, Announces OpenAI’s First New Delhi Office Observer · 25 August 2025
“India has become OpenAI’s second largest market for ChatGPT, trailing only the U.S., according to Altman.”
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E3 ChatGPT Statistics And User Trends 2026 aboutchromebooks.com · 27 June 2025
“The United States accounts for 19% of ChatGPT’s user base, followed by India at 7.86%. Brazil, Canada, and the United Kingdom round out the top five.”
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E4 How people are using ChatGPT OpenAI · 15 September 2025 Own record
“ChatGPT has also become a broadly accessible global tool, with especially rapid growth in low- and middle-income countries.”
Reasoning
E3, a third-party statistics page published 2025-06-27, ranks India second among ChatGPT user bases at 7.86%, behind the United States at 19% [E3]. That matches the claim on users; no evidence covers revenue or other metrics. E1 and E2 are news reports that only repeat Altman's own statement, so they do not confirm it independently. Because the only independent data supporting the claim comes from one secondary source, published 2025-06-27, and no evidence covers other metrics, the verdict is mostly true rather than true.
Cite this claim
Sam Altman, “India is OpenAI's second largest market in the world.” (said 14 August 2025). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_d9a3125acb3d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d9a3125acb3d
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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