Airtel Offers Free 12-Month Perplexity Pro Subscription to 360M Users
Bharti Airtel, India's leading telecom giant, has teamed up with AI startup Perplexity to gift its 360 million customers a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro. This offer is available to all Airtel users, including mobile, Wi-Fi, and DTH service subscribers, via the Airtel Thanks app.
Perplexity Pro, an advanced version of the service, offers more daily searches and access to sophisticated AI models. It also provides deep research, image generation, and other professional features, usually priced at Rs 17,000 per year worldwide. Gopal Vittal, Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Airtel, sees this partnership as a way to provide users with a powerful, real-time knowledge tool at no extra cost.
Aravind Srinivas, Cofounder and CEO of Perplexity, is thrilled about making accurate, trustworthy, and professional-grade AI accessible to more people in India through this collaboration. Perplexity is an AI-powered search and answer engine that delivers real-time, accurate, and deeply researched responses in a conversational language.
Through this partnership, Bharti Airtel and Perplexity aim to enhance users' digital experience by providing advanced AI tools at no additional cost. With 360 million customers eligible for the free Perplexity Pro subscription, this collaboration is set to bring sophisticated AI capabilities to a vast audience.
