Reliance Industries and Google on Thursday entered into a partnership to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence across consumer and enterprise segments in India. The move comes amid a series of alliances between telecom and technology firms and global AI players seeking to widen access to advanced AI tools in the country.
Bharti Airtel was the first to start the trend when in July it partnered Perplexity to offer free one-year access to Perplexity Pro, worth Rs 17,000 to its entire customer base. On Tuesday, OpenAI on a standalone basis, announced a one-year free access plan for its new ChatGPT Go, which was earlier priced at a concessional Rs 399 a month, in India.
Under the Reliance-Google agreement, eligible Jio users will get free access to Google’s AI Pro plan for 18 months, a package valued at Rs 35,100 per user. The plan includes access to the Gemini 2.5 Pro model through the Gemini app, advanced image and video generation tools Nano Banana and Veo 3.1, expanded use of Notebook LM for research and study, and 2 TB of cloud storage. The rollout will start with Jio’s 18–25 age group on unlimited 5G plans before extending nationwide, with activation available through the MyJio app.
Both companies said the partnership will also focus on building AI-powered local experiences for users, including features in multiple regional languages. The initiative, Reliance said, aims to make AI tools more accessible for young users and students while deepening the use of Jio’s digital ecosystem.
On the enterprise side, Reliance Intelligence, the company’s AI arm formed earlier this year, has been named Google Cloud’s strategic partner in India for the deployment of Gemini Enterprise, Google’s agentic AI suite for businesses. Reliance will create and distribute pre-built AI agents within the Gemini platform, alongside those developed by Google and other partners. These enterprise services will be paid offerings.
The collaboration also covers infrastructure development. Reliance will work with Google Cloud to make Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) available in India for training and deploying large-scale AI models, a move expected to strengthen the country’s AI compute capacity and support enterprise adoption.
The Google tie-up follows Reliance’s recently formalised joint venture with Meta Platforms. The venture, Reliance Enterprise Intelligence (REIL), created under its AI arm Reliance Intelligence, will build and distribute enterprise AI solutions based on Meta’s open-source large language model, Llama. Reliance holds a 70% stake in REIL, while Meta’s subsidiary Facebook Overseas Inc owns the remaining 30%.
The partnerships align with chairman Mukesh Ambani’s AI strategy unveiled at Reliance’s 48th annual general meeting, which outlined plans across infrastructure, global alliances, service delivery, and talent development. The company is also setting up green energy-powered, gigawatt-scale data centres in Jamnagar to support AI operations and future growth.
