Google has just announced that it will provide its Gemini AI service for free to more than 500 million users of Reliance Jio – India's largest network operator – in an effort to expand the scale of AI users in the country.

The deal, signed with Reliance Intelligence – a joint venture between Reliance Industries and Meta, includes an AI Pro package worth 35,100 rupees (nearly 10.4 million VND) per person, allowing access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, NotebookLM for learning and research, and 2TB of cloud storage.

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Google AI Pro costs more than 10 million VND in India. Photo: BGR

Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, said the company aims to make India an “AI-powered nation” through long-term strategic collaborations with partners like Google. In the initial phase, users aged 18 to 25 who use Jio’s unlimited 5G plan will get a free trial for 18 months, before the program is expanded to all customers.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed his hopes for expanding AI accessibility across India.

According to Boston Consulting Group, India currently has 377 million Gen Z people, spending 860 billion USD/year and expected to increase to 2,000 billion USD by 2035, making the country a "golden cake" for technology companies.

India is also the world's largest social media market, with over 350 million Facebook, 414 million Instagram, 467 million YouTube and 500 million WhatsApp users, making it a strategic hotbed for digital platforms.

Not only Google, other big competitors are also accelerating. Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest carrier, partnered with Perplexity in July to offer a free Perplexity Pro package (worth $200/year) to its 360 million customers. The promotional campaign was carried out with the participation of many famous KOLs, encouraging users to experience the AI ​​tool for free.

Meanwhile, OpenAI also announced that it will make its ChatGPT Go plan free for Indian users for a year starting November 4, after charging 399 rupees a month – its lowest price – and plans to build a 1-gigawatt data center to serve growing demand there.

The simultaneous emergence of Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Perplexity Pro turns India into a “global AI arena”.

Technology companies expect that integrating AI into existing telecommunications infrastructure will help them quickly attract mass users, create a huge data platform for model training and deploy commercial services later.

Vietnamese students get free use of Google AI Pro Google announced a 1-year free use of the Google AI Pro package for Vietnamese students, opening up the opportunity to access all of the company's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

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