OpenAI Google Perplexity Offer Free AI Plans
OpenAI, Google and Perplexity in November and recent weeks began offering free or deeply discounted AI subscriptions to Indian users, partnering with Reliance Jio and Airtel to reach hundreds of millions. Sensor Tower data shows ChatGPT daily users in India surged 607% year‑on‑year to 73 million, Gemini rose to 17 million, and Perplexity now gets over a third of its global daily users from India. Analysts say the promotions aim to harvest multilingual training data to improve models.
Key Points
- 1Offer free AI subscriptions via telecom partnerships, reaching hundreds of millions of Indian users.
- 2Accelerate multilingual data collection across diverse Indian languages and dialects for model training.
- 3Increase real-world usage metrics and edge-case language examples, affecting fine-tuning and evaluation strategies.
Scoring Rationale
Strong industry impact due to user-scale and data implications, limited by territorial scope and short-term promotions.
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