- Published on March 25, 2025
- In Global Tech
Why are OpenAI and Meta Trying to Woo Reliance?
With a subscriber base exceeding 465.13 million as of 2025, Jio provides a suitable platform to distribute AI tools like ChatGPT to a price-sensitive yet digitally curious population.
- By Siddharth Jindal
OpenAI is in talks with Reliance Industries about a potential partnership to integrate ChatGPT and other AI tools into the latter’s businesses, The Information reported. The Sam Altman-led company is seeking to leverage Reliance’s businesses, such as wireless carrier Jio, to distribute or sell its AI services, possibly including ChatGPT.
As per the report, OpenAI has considered reducing ChatGPT’s subscription price in India by as much as 85% to attract more paid users. Currently priced at $20 per month, the subscription is costly relative to India’s median salary. A potential partnership with Jio, Reliance’s telecom subsidiary, could allow ChatGPT to be bundled into mobile plans at a lower rate.
Reliance has also explored selling OpenAI’s enterprise AI tools to Indi
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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