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What OpenAI’s Local Data Residency Means for India

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OpenAI's Local Data Residency in Key Asian Markets

OpenAI has introduced local data residency options in several Asian countries, including India, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. This is specifically for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and API users. The move is significant as it addresses local data storage needs, particularly in India, which is OpenAI's second-largest market.

Implications for Indian Businesses

  • Data at Rest: The new feature allows data such as prompts, uploaded files, and chat interactions to be stored within India.
  • Data Processing: Although data is stored locally, the model operations still reside on foreign servers. As a result, processing enterprise information at run-time may require data exchange outside Indian servers.
  • Financial Sector Compliance: Aadya Misra from Spice Route Legal highlighted that this option enables financial institutions to use AI for payment processing while remaining compliant with local data storage regulations.

Data Sovereignty Concerns

  • Current Limitations: The move is a preliminary step towards compliance, but it doesn't fully achieve data sovereignty as the data may still transit internationally during model inference.
  • Expert Views: Leslie Joseph from Forrester emphasized that OpenAI has not announced local hosting of its GPT models in India, thus maintaining only partial data localization.
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  • OpenAI's Local Data Residency
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