Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google is partnering with India’s Reliance to offer its Gemini AI service to Reliance Jio customers for 18 months.
The U.S. tech giant is collaborating with Reliance Intelligence to offer Google’s AI Pro plan, and with it the latest version of Google Gemini, to Jio Unlimited 5G plan users at no extra cost for 18 months.
The offer will start rolling out to users between 18 years and 25 years of age, and will soon extend to include every eligible Jio user nationwide.
Google noted that eligible Jio customers will get access to Gemini 2.5 Pro model in the Gemini app, higher limits to generate images and videos with its Nano Banana and Veo 3.1 models, expanded access to NotebookLM, 2 TB of cloud storage across Google Photos, Gmail, Drive and for backing up WhatsApp chats (on Android). These services, otherwise, have a combined value of about INR 35,100.
The Gemini app now has over 650 million monthly active users, Google disclosed on Wednesday during its earnings results.
U.S. tech giants are vying to provide their AI services to India’s massive mobile user market. Earlier this week, Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI (OPENAI) noted that it will be giving Indian users a free one-year subscription to its ChatGPT Go service, starting from Nov. 4.
Google is also investing in India to build AI infrastructure. Earlier this month, Google noted that it will invest $15B over five years for building a data center and AI hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, marking its largest commitment in India to date.