Google partners with Ambani’s Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India (techcrunch.com)

Google has partnered with Reliance to bundle an 18‑month free subscription to its AI Pro tier with eligible Jio 5G plans, initially for users aged 18–25 and later rolling out to all Jio subscribers. The offer (valued at ~₹35,100 / $396) includes access to Gemini 2.5 Pro via the Gemini app, expanded image/video generation limits with Nano Banana and Veo 3.1, Notebook LM for research and study, and 2 TB of cloud storage across Google Photos, Gmail, Drive and WhatsApp backups. Separately, Reliance and Google Cloud will expand TPU availability in India; Reliance Intelligence will act as a strategic go‑to‑market partner to deploy Gemini Enterprise and build pre‑built AI agents for Indian organizations. For the AI/ML community this accelerates large‑scale exposure to advanced generative models and developer tools in the world’s largest emerging internet market. Wider access to Gemini Pro and Notebook LM plus TPU capacity can drive developer experimentation, local dataset collection and enterprise pilot projects — while bundling by incumbents (Jio, Airtel deals with Perplexity) intensifies vendor competition. Key implications include faster product adoption, richer localized data for model refinement, and a potential enterprise push via Reliance Intelligence; however, long‑term monetization and privacy/data usage outcomes remain open questions once promotional periods end.