Reliance Industries announced on Thursday that its AI arm Reliance Intelligence has struck a partnership with Google Cloud that will, among other things, give Reliance Jio users 18 months of free access to Google’s AI Pro plan and expand access to Google Cloud’s AI hardware accelerators in India.
Under the partnership deal, Google and Reliance Intelligence, will begin rolling out Google’s AI Pro plan with the latest version of Google Gemini to eligible Jio users free of charge for 18 months. The offer – which Reliance says is worth INR35,100 (around US$395) – includes higher access to Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model in the Gemini app, higher limits to generate images and videos with its Nano Banana and Veo 3.1 models, expanded access to Notebook LM for study and research and 2 TB of cloud storage.
Jio will initially target 18- to-25-year-old users on unlimited 5G plans, and will expand it to all Jio customers nationwide “in the shortest time possible”.
The partnership also includes a deal between Reliance and Google Cloud to broaden access to its tensor processing units (TPUs), Google’s custom-designed AI accelerators optimized for training and inference of AI models. Reliance said 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.
Reliance Intelligence will also serve as a strategic go-to-market partner for Google Cloud, driving the adoption of Gemini Enterprise – Google’s unified agentic AI platform – across Indian organizations. 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.
The Google Cloud partnership deal comes almost two months after Reliance announced a joint venture with Meta to build agentic AI enterprise platforms and tools for businesses in India and select international markets.
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh D. Ambani said the partnership with Google Cloud will democratise AI access and strengthen the digital foundation for India’s AI-driven future.
“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,” Ambani said in a statement.
“Today’s announcement will put Google’s cutting-edge AI tools in the hands of consumers, businesses, and India’s vibrant developer community,” added Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.
