Reliance Jio users to receive ₹35,100 Google AI Pro boost, for free

Jio users to receive 18 months of free Google AI Pro access as telecom giant positions for AI infrastructure business

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through its subsidiary Reliance Intelligence Limited, has entered into a strategic partnership with Google to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across India. 

The tie-up, aligned with Reliance’s AI for All vision, will see the rollout of Google AI Pro featuring the latest Gemini model for eligible Jio users, free of charge for 18 months. Valued at ₹35,100, the offer includes access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, expanded image and video generation through Nano Banana and Veo 3.1, enhanced Notebook LM features, and 2 TB of cloud storage.  Reliance Jio's telecom user base currently stands around 506 million.

 

This partnership comes at a time when both global and Indian technology majors are stepping up their AI bets on India. OpenAI recently announced that ChatGPT Go would be free for Indian users for a year from November 4, underscoring India’s position as ChatGPT’s second-largest and fastest-growing market. 

Earlier this year, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a $3 billion investment to expand the company’s cloud and AI infrastructure in India, including new data centres. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed $12.7 billion through 2030 to build out its cloud and AI capacity in the country.

 

Bharti Airtel has partnered with IBM to bring enterprise AI services to customers through its Airtel Cloud platform, while Reliance itself has set up a new venture with Meta to develop enterprise AI products. 

Thursday's announcement also comes weeks after Google committed to invest $15 billion in AI infrastructure capacity in Visakhapatnam, its biggest investment yet in the critical South Asian market. Together, these moves highlight how India is emerging as a key hub for AI development, adoption, and experimentation. 

Google AI Pro rollout 

Eligible Jio users can activate the Google AI Pro offer via the MyJio app. The rollout will begin with early access for 18- to 25-year-olds on unlimited 5G plans and will soon extend to all Jio customers nationwide. The partnership will also focus on developing localised AI experiences that reflect India’s cultural and linguistic diversity. 

“Reliance Intelligence aims to make intelligence services accessible to 1.45 billion Indians,” stated Mukesh Ambani, chairman and MD of RIL. “Through our collaboration with strategic and long-term partners like Google, we aim to make India not just AI-enabled but AI-empowered -- where every citizen and enterprise can harness intelligent tools to create, innovate and grow.” 

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said the partnership builds on a long-standing relationship between the two firms. “Together we’ve brought affordable internet access and smartphones to millions. Now, we are bringing this collaboration into the AI era,” he said. “Today’s announcement will put Google’s AI tools in the hands of consumers, businesses, and India’s developer community. I’m excited for how this partnership will help expand access to AI across India.” 

Reliance will also partner with Google Cloud to expand access to its advanced AI hardware accelerators -- Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) -- as part of its plan to build clean energy-powered, sovereign compute infrastructure in India. The initiative will allow organisations to train and deploy large AI models and improve performance for complex projects. Reliance said the move would strengthen India’s national AI backbone and contribute to building a globally competitive AI ecosystem. 

Gemini Enterprise for Indian businesses 

The collaboration also makes Reliance Intelligence a key go-to-market partner for Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, a unified platform that allows businesses to create, share, and deploy AI agents securely. Reliance will develop its own pre-built enterprise AI agents within the platform, adding to the range of tools available to Indian companies.