Google Partners with Reliance Jio to Offer Free Gemini Pro AI Plan to All Users for 18 Months

This offer provides enhanced access to Google's most advanced Gemini 2.5 Pro model through the Gemini application.

New Delhi:

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized the advantages for Reliance Jio users as he shared his excitement about both companies collaborating to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption across India.

"Excited to partner with Reliance Jio to bring the best of Google AI to India. Eligible Jio users will receive our AI Pro plan at no extra cost for 18 months, including Gemini 2.5 Pro, 2TB of storage our latest AI creation tools. Can't wait to see what we'll build together!" Sundar Pichai announced in a post on X.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through Reliance Intelligence Limited, and Google have announced a comprehensive strategic partnership to accelerate AI adoption across India, "empowering consumers, enterprises, and developers in line with Reliance's AI for All vision".

This collaboration combines Reliance's "unmatched scale, connectivity, and ecosystem reach with Google's world-class AI technology", according to a release. These initiatives aim to democratize AI access and strengthen the digital foundation for India's AI-driven future, the release further stated.

Google, partnering with Reliance Intelligence, will begin deploying Google's AI Pro plan featuring the latest version of Google Gemini to eligible Jio users free of charge for 18 months.

This offer includes enhanced access to Google's most capable Gemini 2.5 Pro model in the Gemini app, higher limits for generating impressive 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. The 18-month offer is valued at Rs 35,100.

Eligible Jio users will be able to easily activate this offer through the MyJio app. Reflecting Jio's commitment to empowering India's youth, the rollout will begin with early access for 18- to 25-year-old users on unlimited 5G plans and will quickly expand to include all Jio customers nationwide in the shortest time possible.

This partnership will also explore introducing more engaging local experiences powered by AI to Jio users, catering to India's rich cultural and linguistic diversity.

In alignment with its vision of building multi-GW, clean energy-powered, state-of-the-art sovereign compute capabilities, Reliance announced a partnership with Google Cloud to expand access to its advanced AI hardware accelerators, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).

This will enable more organizations 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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make India a global AI powerhouse, the release stated.

"This expanded collaboration also establishes Reliance Intelligence as a strategic go-to-market partner for Google Cloud, driving the adoption of Gemini Enterprise across Indian organizations. 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 empowers teams to discover, create, share, and run AI agents--all in one secure environment," it added.

Reliance Intelligence will also develop and offer its own pre-built enterprise AI agents in GeminiEnterprise, expanding the available choice of both Google-built and third-party agents to users.

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, 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."

RIL is India's largest private sector company, with a consolidated revenue of Rs 10,71,174 crore, cash profit of Rs 1,46,917 crore and net profit of Rs 81,309 crore for the year ended March 31, 2025.