Mon Dec 09 11:48:55 UTC 2024: ## AI Company Offers Free Access to Advanced Tool for Indian Students and Researchers

**NEW DELHI** – Following the Indian government’s $715 million initiative to provide free access to 13,000 academic journals, Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has proposed making his company’s advanced AI tool, Perplexity Pro, freely available to India’s 18 million students, faculty, and researchers.

Srinivas tweeted a proposal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, offering to collaborate on an economically viable structure to provide nationwide access to the AI platform. This follows the government’s widely lauded program granting free access to journals from publishers like Elsevier, Nature, and AAAS.

Perplexity Pro offers AI-powered tools designed to streamline information access and enhance learning outcomes, potentially significantly benefiting India’s academic and research communities. The proposal highlights the potential for public-private partnerships to expand access to crucial digital resources in education and research. Srinivas’s offer is seen as building on the momentum of the government’s journal initiative and could set a precedent for similar collaborations globally.

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