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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Google on Thursday announced a strategic partnership to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across India, under which Google will offer its premium AI Pro plan with the latest Google Gemini version free for 18 months to eligible Jio users — a package valued at Rs 35,100.
“This offer includes higher access to Google’s most capable Gemini 2.5 Pro model in the Gemini app, higher limits to generate stunning images and videos with their state-of-the-art Nano Banana and Veo 3.1 models, expanded access to Notebook LM for study and research, 2 TB of cloud storage and more,” RIL said.
“Eligible Jio users will be able to easily activate this offer via the MyJio app. The rollout will commence with early access for 18- to 25-year-old users on unlimited 5G plans and will swiftly expand to include every Jio customer nationwide in the shortest time possible,” it said.
RIL also announced a partnership with Google Cloud to broaden access to its advanced AI hardware accelerators, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). This will enable more organisations to train and deploy larger, more complex AI models, as well as deliver faster inferencing to help execute highly demanding projects and accelerate AI adoption across the broader India AI ecosystem. “It will also strengthen India’s national AI backbone, supporting the vision articulated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister to make India a global AI powerhouse,” RIL said.
The expanded collaboration also establishes Reliance Intelligence as a strategic go-to-market partner for Google Cloud, driving the adoption of Gemini Enterprise across Indian organisations. “Gemini Enterprise is a next-generation, unified agentic AI platform for businesses that brings the best of Google AI to every employee, for every workflow,” it said.
It empowers teams to discover, create, share, and run AI agents—all in one secure environment, RIL said. Reliance Intelligence will also develop and offer its own pre-built enterprise AI agents in Gemini Enterprise, expanding the available choice of both Google-built and third-party agents to users, it said.
Mukesh D Ambani, chairman, RIL, said, “Reliance Intelligence aims to make intelligence services accessible to 1.45 billion Indians. 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.”
“We are bringing this collaboration into the AI era. Today’s announcement will put Google’s cutting-edge AI tools in the hands of consumers, businesses, and India’s vibrant developer community. I’m excited for how this partnership will help expand access to AI across India,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said.
