OpenAI will host its first-ever DevDay Exchange event in India on November 4, 2025.
All users in India will receive a free one-year subscription to ChatGPT Go.
The move marks a major milestone in OpenAI’s India-first expansion strategy.
OpenAI’s First Developer Event in India
OpenAI has announced its first developer conference in India, called DevDay Exchange, scheduled for November 4, 2025, in Bengaluru. The event will focus on connecting with Indian developers, educators, and enterprises, while also introducing new initiatives tailored for the local market. The decision to host this event in India highlights the country’s growing importance in OpenAI’s global expansion and its rapidly developing AI ecosystem.
One-Year Free ChatGPT Go Subscription
To celebrate this milestone, OpenAI is offering a free one-year subscription to ChatGPT Go for all users in India. The promotion will begin on November 4 and will apply to both new users and existing ChatGPT Go subscribers. Those who already have an active subscription will automatically receive an additional 12 months of free access. The duration of this limited-time offer has not yet been disclosed.
What is ChatGPT Go
ChatGPT Go was launched in India in August 2025 as OpenAI’s most affordable paid plan, priced at ₹399 per month. It provides ten times more usage compared to the free version and includes advanced features such as image generation, file uploads, and improved memory for more personalized conversations. The plan runs on OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 model, offering faster responses and higher reliability.
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India’s Growing Role in OpenAI’s Global Strategy
India has quickly become OpenAI’s second-largest market after the United States, with millions of developers, students, and professionals using ChatGPT daily. The launch of ChatGPT Go led to a sharp rise in paid users, with subscriptions doubling in the first month alone. This growth reflects India’s strong appetite for accessible and affordable AI tools.
Strengthening the India-First AI Strategy
OpenAI’s expansion aligns with India’s national “IndiaAI Mission,” which aims to build a stronger AI ecosystem. The company recently opened its first office in New Delhi and is hiring local teams to focus on education, enterprise, and community engagement. OpenAI is also collaborating with government programs and educational institutions to expand AI literacy and access beyond major cities.
Rising Competition in India’s AI Market
OpenAI faces increasing competition from other major AI companies targeting India’s large and tech-savvy population. Perplexity has partnered with Airtel to offer free Pro access to 360 million users, while Google is providing a free one-year AI Pro membership for Indian students. These developments indicate a rapidly intensifying race to capture the growing Indian AI market.
OpenAI’s decision to offer a one-year free ChatGPT Go subscription and host its first DevDay Exchange event in India shows its long-term plans for the country’s AI growth.
To achieve those goals, OpenAI is betting on two key strategies: continued algorithmic innovation and dramatically scaling up "test time compute" — essentially how long models spend thinking about problems.
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Sam Altman and OpenAI announced a new deal with Microsoft, setting revised terms for future AI development. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop)
Microsoft and OpenAI announced the long-awaited details of their new partnership agreement Tuesday morning — with concessions on both sides that keep the companies aligned but not in lockstep as they move into their next phases of AI development.
Under the arrangement, Microsoft gets a 27% equity stake in OpenAI’s new for-profit entity, the OpenAI Group PBC (Public Benefit Corporation), a stake valued at approximately $135 billion. That’s a decrease from 32.5% equity but not a bad return on an investment of $13.8 billion.
At the same time, OpenAI has contracted to purchase an incremental $250 billion in Microsoft Azure cloud services. However, in a significant concession in return for that certainty, Microsoft will no longer have a “right of first refusal” on new OpenAI cloud workloads.
Microsoft, meanwhile, will retain its intellectual property rights to OpenAI models and products through 2032, an extension of the timeframe that existed previously.
A key provision of the new agreement centers on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with any declaration of AGI by OpenAI now subject to verification by an independent expert panel. This was a sticking point in the earlier partnership agreement, with an ambiguous definition of AI potentially triggering new provisions of the prior arrangement.
Microsoft and OpenAI had previously announced a tentative agreement without providing details. More aspects of the deal are disclosed in a joint blog post from the companies.
Shares of Microsoft are up 2% in early trading after the announcement. The company reports earnings Wednesday afternoon, and some analysts have said the uncertainty over the OpenAI arrangement has been impacting Microsoft’s stock.
PayPal is adopting the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open source specification developed by OpenAI that lets merchants make their products available within AI apps, consequently enabling users to shop using AI agents.
We’ve seen how AI can generate text. Later, we also saw how AI can generate images and videos. So, AI that generates music? Why not? And that’s something that OpenAI is reportedly working on, which is generative AI music.
OpenAI working on generative AI music
According to a report from The Information, it has learned that OpenAI is developing a new AI tool that would allow users to create generative music. This means that similar to generative text, images, and videos, users can just type in a prompt using natural language, and the AI will create a song for them on the fly.
The report goes on to state that OpenAI is apparently working with students from the prestigious Juilliard School to annotate scores. This will help the AI model train itself on music. That being said, if this report is accurate, OpenAI won’t be the first to launch such a tool. Platforms like Sumo and SOUNDRAW already offer similar capabilities.
However, we suppose the potential upside is that OpenAI might bake this feature into ChatGPT. This will give ChatGPT even more tools, making it a more well-rounded AI model compared to those designed for niche purposes.
Is the world ready for more AI slop?
That being said, we have to wonder what the world and the industry think about this. At the moment, most people seem to be against AI-generated content. This is especially true when it comes to text, images, and videos, which have been labelled as “AI slop.” However, there could be some potential use here.
Content creators right now have a few options when it comes to using music in their videos. They can either pick from a library of songs that are copyright-approved, find their own royalty-free music, or pay a third-party platform to license music. Otherwise, they risk having their videos pulled, muted, and accounts suspended. Giving these creators the ability to generate something on the fly could be one way around that.
Plus, we’re sure that there are many musicians, record labels, and music publishers who might be concerned that their content is being used to train these AI models without their consent or compensation. We’ve already seen artists, writers, and publishers sue AI companies, so it’s not entirely out of the question.
OpenAI recently entered the browser space with ChatGPT Atlas. This new AI-powered tool aims to embed conversational intelligence directly into the web navigation experience. Days after its initial release, the development team is already outlining a series of immediate updates. It seems that the company is focused on quickly enhancing both the core functionality and the unique AI features of ChatGPT Atlas.
ChatGPT Atlas AI Browser to close the feature gap quickly
Adam Fry, ChatGPT Atlas product manager, confirmed the first set of upgrades. The list shows that devs are focusing on familiar utilities common in established browsers. Key additions include native support for User Profiles, organization via Tab Groups, and the availability of an opt-in Ad Blocker. These options are fundamental for providing the organizational structure and convenience users expect from an everyday browser. Additionally, a series of quality-of-life enhancements, including a fully functional overflow menu for bookmarks and an improved list of keyboard shortcuts, are also in the works.
You can expect significant improvements in the most advanced artificial intelligence components. The Agent feature, currently available to paid subscribers for handling complex actions across multiple web steps, is getting technical refinements. The goal is to improve stability through quicker response times and a more reliable “pause” function. This update will also expand the Agent’s utility by integrating it more deeply with major cloud services like Google Drive and web-based Excel. Basically, the AI will be more capable and reliable for automated, professional workflows.
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Improved ChatGPT sidebar, fast switching between different projects and AI models
The integrated Ask ChatGPT sidebar is likewise undergoing refinement. Plans include allowing users to quickly switch between different project contexts or specific AI models without having to leave the current web page. The team is exploring features like seamless text transfer, allowing users to copy and insert text generated in the chat directly into the browser window. The developers have also noted community feedback. They confirmed that specific compatibility issues with certain third-party tools, such as the 1Password password manager, will get a fix.
OpenAI seems to be prioritizing rapid improvement based on user feedback and technical requirements. It remains to be seen whether the company can dominate the AI browser segment as it did with the chatbot segment. OpenAI will have tough competition in Perplexity’s Comet and Chrome’s upcoming AI-powered big revamp. Even Microsoft joined the race with deeper integration of Copilot AI into its own Edge browser.
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Soon after Zillow announced it was the first real estate company to launch an app in ChatGPT, some in the industry responded with alarm.
The core concern was whether the integration violates licensing rules, but the conversations touched on broader issues: How should listing data be used and controlled? How should the industry be thinking about data standards in the context of emerging AI technologies?
‘At the forefront of generative AI adoption’
In its Oct. 6 announcement, Zillow said ChatGPT users could now add the Zillow app to the popular AI chatbot and explore listings using natural language search. The app — within ChatGPT — can then display property info with links back to the original listings on Zillow.
The integration was designed to bring “simplicity to the home journey within ChatGPT,” said David Beitel, Zillow’s chief technology officer. The partnership, he added, “puts Zillow at the forefront of generative AI adoption.”
‘What is reasonable control’ of data?
Almost immediately, some people wondered whether Zillow was following the terms of its IDX data licensing agreements with multiple listing services.
“Zillow’s ChatGPT integration raises the question: what is reasonable control of the display of MLS data?” Leah Ingalsbe, executive vice president of MLS and technology at the Greater Springfield Board of Realtors, wrote on LinkedIn.
“Granted, licensing agreements differ from one MLS to another, but this development offers plenty of food for thought on emerging technologies that were nonexistent when many of our terms of use were penned,” Ingalsbe wrote.
She did not respond to a request for further comment.
No ‘permission to share’
A Texas real estate agent was more definitive in his stance. Danny Frank, an agent at JLA Realty and a former chair of the Houston Association of Realtors, wrote a blog post expressing his concerns, and in an interview with Real Estate News, said he believes Zillow is in violation of IDX rules.
“The brokers give permission to HAR, and they do not have my permission to share that [listing data] with another third party site, unless everyone has equal access to that,” Frank said. “Right now, only Zillow has access to that [ChatGPT integration], and they’re using that to their benefit.”
Frank has also filed a complaint with HAR, which told Real Estate News, “We are reviewing the matter and will take appropriate action if any issues are identified.”
Who’s displaying the listings?
The National Association of Realtors’ IDX policy requires all displays of IDX listings to “be under the actual and apparent control of the participant [broker].”
Victor Lund, founding partner and co-CEO of real estate consulting firm WAV Group, has asserted that Zillow is violating this requirement, because its license allows the display of MLS data on Zillow.com and its mobile apps, not on another domain.
Lund contends that, “From the consumer’s perspective, they’re using ChatGPT … and simply invoking Zillow as a tool inside that environment.”
While NAR has not taken a stance on the Zillow integration, the association released a statement on Oct. 21 advising MLSs to consider “whether MLS data is being transmitted to an unauthorized party, if the displaying Participant maintains ‘control’ over their display, and if the display fulfills the disclosure and display requirements outlined in local IDX rules” when assessing compliance.
NAR also clarified that “the display of MLS data on mobile apps is permitted under the existing IDX policy.”
Zillow outlines its compliance measures
The company went through “a painstaking process” to make sure it was following MLS rules, according to Errol Samuelson, Zillow’s chief industry development officer, during a recent Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered podcast.
They also worked with ChatGPT creator OpenAI to ensure IDX data would not be used to train the AI model. “It was a deep collaboration, and they’ve been very respectful of the different industry rules and data privacy and federal laws and so on,” said Josh Weisberg, SVP of AI at Zillow, during the podcast.
Zillow addressed some of the other industry concerns in its FAQ.
Regarding third-party display of data, the FAQ explains that after a user enters a prompt within the app, ChatGPT relays it to Zillow, which “sends a response that is displayed in the Zillow App, but that data does not go to ChatGPT” — in other words, the chatbot itself is not displaying MLS data.
As for the “participant control” requirement, the FAQ says “the Zillow App was built by Zillow to be IDX-compliant and is operated by, and controlled by Zillow, just as on the Zillow website and mobile app.”
Real Estate News reached out to Zillow multiple times for further comment and Zillow declined to speak on the record.
Opening a back door to data?
Web browsers like Google display links to Zillow listings, but they don’t create a downloadable spreadsheet of listing data. Will Zillow’s ChatGPT integration provide such a list? Yes.
Real Estate News tested this out by asking the integrated app for listings in a certain market and price range, which it displayed. After prompting the app with a series of additional questions, the app said it could “pull all the data the widget actually loaded” — meaning the data from the Zillow integration or “connector” itself.
Ultimately, it captured data for 100 listings in a downloadable file. (See the exact prompts and responses at the end of this story.)
Lund believes this could open the door for third parties to capture listing data “and [use] it for commercial purposes” or “track and monitor listings” using an external system.
MLSs taking a closer look — but not saying much
Real Estate News repeated listing searches for several markets and sent the ChatGPT-created spreadsheets to the relevant MLSs. Some declined to comment on the record (Bright MLS, California Regional MLS) or did not respond to requests for comment (Miami Realtors MLS, BeachesMLS, UtahRealEstate.com, GSBOR).
Others, including Stellar MLS, Georgia MLS and NTREIS, said they were “discussing internally” or “still investigating” whether the Zillow-ChatGPT integration complies with IDX policies.
But a spokesperson for North Carolina’s Canopy MLS said “the Zillow app remains compliant with our IDX rules at this time,” though they declined to comment further.
Lund said he was “not surprised” MLSs weren’t talking publicly about the integration. “They’re in the middle of trying to understand it,” he said. “This is all brand-new information.”
Another reason MLSs might be keeping quiet?
“We’re in a very litigious time in our industry, more than I’ve ever seen it,” said Russ Cofano, co-founder and principal of Alloy Advisors and a licensed attorney.
“I think people are going to be very cautious about taking approaches that could result in litigation, and doing their due diligence before they try to make any decisions that could create problems for other companies, whether it’s Zillow or anybody else,” Cofano said.
Cofano wouldn’t share a personal opinion on compliance, but he noted that “there may be some unintended consequences from this type of integration, and those things should be addressed so that we don’t have easy ways for people to misuse MLS data.”
A path forward?
Still, Cofano said he hoped the new app would spur MLSs to reach out to Zillow — not just to gauge compliance, but to learn from their innovation.
“If really this industry is about serving consumers, then we should be applauding Zillow … for trying to do something that exposes authorized listing data to more people in the way that we all know is coming, which is AI search and discovery,” Cofano said.
The industry gets “wrapped around the axle on this ownership of data issue, and sometimes … forget what the objective here is, and that is not to own the data, but to facilitate buyers looking at sellers’ homes for sale and doing transactions.”
A peek inside the Zillow-ChatGPT app
Here’s what happened when we tried the Zillow-ChatGPT app for ourselves — and asked it for the data.
Using an individual, paid ChatGPT account on a web browser, Real Estate News added the Zillow app to the account and asked, “Zillow, please show me for-sale listings in Orlando, Florida, priced between $0 and $400K.” ChatGPT displayed a map with red, pinned listings and their prices.
When asked, “Can you get the data used to display the widget I’m seeing? All of it?” ChatGPT replied, “I can pull all the data the widget actually loaded (that’s the first page of results—up to ~100 listings with full details like address, price, beds/baths, sqft, lot size, lat/long, home type/status, and the Zillow URL).”
ChatGPT then said it could export those 100 listings and said it would “need to run multiple paged fetches” in order to capture every matching property. It then offered to deliver those first 100 listings as CSV and JSON files. When told to “go ahead,” it delivered those downloadable files, providing data for those 100 listings.
When asked, “Where did you get the data for these files?” the reply was “From the Zillow connector powering the embedded map/widget you used here. When you asked for Orlando, FL homes $0–$400k, I called the Zillow tool behind the scenes; it returned the first page of listing payloads (what the widget loaded to render those cards). I saved that exact response as the raw JSON and a flattened CSV.”
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at an Amazon event at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing renewed threats of federal intervention from President Trump, Mayor Daniel Lurie used an appearance at an Amazon event Tuesday to make the case that San Francisco is “on the rise,” citing its AI-fueled revival as proof of a broader comeback.
Without naming Trump or explicitly citing the proposal to deploy the National Guard, Lurie pushed back on the national narrative of urban decline — pointing to falling crime rates, new investment, and the city’s central role in the AI boom.
Lurie, who took office earlier this year, said San Francisco is “open for business” again, name-checking OpenAI and other prominent companies in the city as examples of the innovation fueling its recovery. Mayors of other cities, he said, would die to have one of the many AI companies based in San Francisco.
“Every single metric is heading in the right direction,” Lurie said, noting that violent crime is at its lowest level since the 1950s and car break-ins are at a 22-year low, among other stats.
He was speaking at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, as Amazon hosted journalists from around the country and the world on the eve of its annual Delivering the Future event, where the company shows its latest robotics and logistics innovations.
“I want you to tell everybody, wherever you come from, that San Francisco’s on the rise,” he said. “You tell them there’s a new mayor in town, that we’ve got this, and we do.”
Amazon and leaders of San Francisco-Marin Food Bank highlighted their partnership that uses the company’s delivery network to bring food to community members who can’t get to a pantry. The company said Tuesday it has delivered more than 60 million meals for free from food banks across the US and UK, committing to continue the program through 2028.
A New York Times report on Tuesday, citing internal Amazon documents, said the company wants to automate 75% of its operations in the coming years to be able to avoid hiring hundreds of thousands of workers. It noted that the company is looking at burnishing its image through community programs to counteract the long-term fallout.
Executives noted that Amazon has focused in the Seattle region on affordable housing, in line with its approach of adapting to different needs in communities where it operates.
Lurie pointed to the company’s San Francisco food bank partnership as a model for other companies. “Amazon is showing that they are committed to San Francisco,” he said.
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