By NDTV Profit Tech
Publication Date: 2025-12-19 04:53:00
These offers are reportedly driving a sharp rise in usage. Data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, compiled for Reuters, shows daily active users of ChatGPT in India jumping 607% year-on-year to 73 million as of last week. This is more than double the number recorded in the US. Gemini’s daily users in India rose 15% after the Reliance Jio offer launched in November, reaching 17 million last week, compared with three million in the U.S. India has now become the largest market by daily users for both chatbots, the data showed.
Perplexity has also entered the fray, making its Pro tool, which is priced globally at $200 a year, free for one year for customers of Airtel. The company says the plan provides unlimited access to its most advanced research tools. As a result, India now accounts for more than a third of Perplexity’s global daily active users, up from 7% last year, according to the Sensor Tower data.
But analysts believe the strategy goes beyond user growth. Multiple AI analysts told Reuters that India’s linguistic diversity makes it a valuable source of training data. They see Indian user interactions as a big test for AI systems seeking to handle complex communication patterns that are largely missing from existing datasets.
The aggressive pricing strategy echoes earlier moves by Reliance, led by Mukesh Ambani, which partnered with Google’s Gemini. Reliance’s telecom arm built a user base of more than 500 million customers after launching in 2016…
