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ChatGPT Joins Low-Cost AI Rush
Financial Express Ahmedabad
|August 20, 2025
OTHERGENAI SERVICES companies are not too far behind. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, joined hands with Grammarly, the AI-based English correction platform, last month to launch sharply reduced subscription plans for Indian users.
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Grammarly cut its subscription price to ₹250 a month (billed annually), nearly three-fourths lower than its global rate.
Perplexity, another rising challenger to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, struck a deal with Bharti Airtel earlier this month to offer its premium services free to subscribers. Normally priced at around ₹17,000 a year, the chatbot is now accessible to Airtel customers at no additional cost—an aggressive play that has set off a new "volume game" in the sector.
This story is from the August 20, 2025 edition of Financial Express Ahmedabad.
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