360 Million Indians Just Got Premium AI Chatbots For Free For a Year (indiadispatch.com)
(Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:45AM (msmash)
from the how-about-that dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/17/0742246/360-million-indians-just-got-premium-ai-chatbots-for-free-for-a-year
- Source link: https://indiadispatch.com/p/perplexity-pro-airtel-free-india
Perplexity has partnered with Indian telecoms giant Bharti Airtel to provide its premium Pro service to [1]360 million customers for free for an entire year , representing the largest distribution deal of its kind globally.
The service normally costs $200 annually and provides access to advanced models including GPT-4.1 and Claude Sonnet and Opus 4. India is already ChatGPT's largest market by mobile usage.
[1] https://indiadispatch.com/p/perplexity-pro-airtel-free-india
The service normally costs $200 annually and provides access to advanced models including GPT-4.1 and Claude Sonnet and Opus 4. India is already ChatGPT's largest market by mobile usage.
[1] https://indiadispatch.com/p/perplexity-pro-airtel-free-india
Just signed up for it. (Score:3)
by shm ( 235766 )
Sign up is slow and might appear to time out, but youâ(TM)ll get an SMS confirmation.
It shows Grok 4 as an option but no way to check what is in use.
AI will speak Inglish (Score:1)
by butt0nm4n ( 1736412 )
... ah my lovely adaptable language. We are the world's plucky mongrel.
Re: (Score:2)
by Ceriel Nosforit ( 682174 )
It's like Katamari Damacy but with intelligence.
This reads like a drug-pusher's scheme (Score:2)
The first few hits are free, then after addiction, a price must be paid.
Re: This reads like a drug-pusher's scheme (Score:2)
It will cancel after the first year automatically.
Re: (Score:2)
A year is a lot of time in that space. Next year you probably have models of that quality that run on your PC. If not on your phone.