Google Brings Free Gemini Access To India's Largest Carrier

Google’s AI ambitions are world successful scale, truthful overmuch truthful that it has conscionable agreed to springiness Gemini distant for free successful India to group utilizing nan country's biggest mobile provider. Thanks to a woody pinch Reliance Intelligence, an AI-focused subsidiary of Reliance Industries, group signed up to Jio’s Unlimited 5G scheme will beryllium offered Google AI Pro astatine nary other costs for 18 months.

That intends that qualifying users will person entree to Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s astir advanced AI model. They will besides use from higher limits for nan Nano Banana and Veo 3.1 AI image and video generators, positive expanded entree to NotebookLM. The scheme besides includes 2TB of unreality retention crossed Google’s apps, for a full mixed worthy of astir 35,100 rupees ($396) per user.

The connection will initially beryllium exclusive to Jio customers betwixt nan property of 18 and 25, but will yet widen to each group connected an eligible scheme via nan MyJio app. Jio is India's largest mobile web operator, and a institution successful which Google purchased a 7.7 percent liking worthy $4.5 cardinal successful 2020.

India is accelerated becoming a cardinal battleground for AI description . Back successful July, Perplexity AI partnered pinch Bharti Airtel, Jio’s rival carrier, to connection a year-long Perplexity Pro subscription worthy $200 to each of Airtel’s 360 cardinal customers. OpenAI is besides adopting an fierce strategy successful nan country, precocious debuting its cheapest ChatGPT subscription to date, astatine 390 rupee ($4.60), successful India first. ChatGPT Go offers users 10 times much connection limits, image procreation and record uploads than nan free version.