Monday, 10 November, 2025
Global AI Giants Offer Free Premium Access in India
Major AI firms like Google (Gemini) and Perplexity are partnering with telecom giants Jio and Airtel to offer free premium AI access in India. This strategy, similar to the "free data" model, aims to accelerate mass user adoption and establish dominance. The ultimate goal is to build AI habits and gather rich, diverse usage data from India’s massive user base to train their large language models for global scale and eventual monetization.
Read full story at Economic Times