{"id":972718,"date":"2025-11-10T07:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972718"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:31:28","slug":"airtel-perplexity-to-jio-gemini-why-global-ai-giants-are-offering-free-premium-access-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/airtel-perplexity-to-jio-gemini-why-global-ai-giants-are-offering-free-premium-access-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel-Perplexity to Jio-Gemini: Why global AI giants are offering free premium access in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months, Big AI has made big moves in India. First it was Aravind Srinivas\u2019s Perplexity, which partnered with India\u2019s second largest mobile network Airtel to offer their premium Pro version for free in India. They gave away a subscription priced around Rs 17,000 annually. That was in July. It set the ball rolling for more such deals. <\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s largest mobile network, Jio, partnered with Sundar Pichai\u2019s Google to offer for free 18 months of Gemini Pro\u2014on paper worth around Rs 35,000\u2014to users aged between 18 and 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months, Big AI has made big moves in India. First it was Aravind Srinivas\u2019s Perplexity, which partnered with India\u2019s second largest mobile network Airtel to offer their premium Pro version for free in India. They gave away a subscription priced around Rs 17,000 annually. That was in July. It set the ball rolling for more such deals. The country\u2019s largest mobile network, Jio, partnered with Sundar Pichai\u2019s Google to offer for free 18 months of Gemini Pro\u2014on paper worth around Rs 35,000\u2014to users aged between 18 and 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}