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Google volition connection its Gemini AI work for escaped to implicit 500 cardinal Reliance Jio users successful India, arsenic planetary artificial quality firms treble down connected acquiring customers successful the country.
The U.S. tech elephantine revealed Thursday that it had signed a pact with Reliance Intelligence, a associated task betwixt Reliance Industries and Meta, to supply Google's AI Pro plan, which includes Gemini 2.5 Pro, expanded entree to NotebookLM for survey and research, and 2 TB of unreality storage, among different things.
Mukesh Ambani, president of Reliance Industries, said his steadfast aims to marque India "AI-empowered" done collaborations with strategical and semipermanent partners specified arsenic Google. Reliance Jio is India's largest telecom services operator.
Google services, worthy 35,100 rupees per idiosyncratic ($396), volition person a staggered rotation retired with aboriginal entree for 18- to 25-year-old users connected unlimited Jio 5G plans for for 18 months. Eventually they volition beryllium made disposable for escaped to the company's full lawsuit base.
"I'm excited for however this concern volition assistance grow entree to AI crossed India," said Sundar Pichai, main enforcement serviceman of Google and Alphabet.
There are astir 377 cardinal Gen Zs successful India, driving $860 cardinal successful user spending successful the country, and that is acceptable to emergence to $2 trillion by 2035, according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group.
India has the highest number of users globally crossed societal media platforms specified arsenic Facebook (350 million-plus), Instagram (413.8 million), video app YouTube (over 467 million) portion messaging app WhatsApp has implicit 500 million users, making it a cardinal marketplace for integer services.
In July, the 2nd largest Indian telecom relation Bharti Airtel partnered with Perplexity to connection its 360 cardinal customers escaped entree to Perplexity Pro, which is priced astatine $200 per twelvemonth globally.
Airtel and Perplexity followed this up with intensive campaigns connected societal media platforms, enlisting starring Indian influencers who posted reels promoting the use-cases for the escaped AI tool.
Indian telecom marketplace is dominated by Jio and Airtel and partnerships with these telecom operators connection the accidental for companies to grow the scope of apps and integer tools, making them disposable to a wide audience.
On Tuesday, OpenAI reportedly said it would marque its ChatGPT Go program escaped for users successful India for a year, starting Nov. 4. The connection was launched successful August for 399 rupees per month, and was among the astir affordable subscription plans from OpenAI.
The institution is rapidly expanding its presence successful India, its 2nd largest market, and plans to acceptable up a 1 gigawatt data halfway successful the country.
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