Simply in the future after Airtel introduced its supply of a complimentary Perplexity Professional subscription, the Perplexity app has seen an unprecedented surge in downloads, significantly on iOS. 

Due to the Airtel promotion, the AI search engine has climbed to the highest spot on the App Retailer in India, overtaking OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This milestone was introduced by Perplexity AI’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, in a submit on LinkedIn.

As reported by Mint Information, Google’s Gemini ranks fifth among the many high free apps on the App Retailer, following Perplexity and ChatGPT. 

However, ChatGPT stays on the high of the charts on the Google Play Retailer, whereas Perplexity has not but tried to compete for a place among the many main free apps.

Perplexity Professional provides customers entry to superior AI fashions, together with GPT-4.1, Claude, Grok 4, and others, in addition to picture technology capabilities throughout suitable fashions. Subscribers additionally acquire entry to the corporate’s newly launched Comet browser, which is presently accessible solely to free customers by means of an invite.

Following Airtel’s announcement of its main partnership with an AI startup based mostly within the US to supply a complimentary year-long subscription to Perplexity AI Professional, quite a few Airtel subscribers took benefit of the promotion. 

The Perplexity AI Professional subscription is very advantageous for college students, researchers, professionals, and educators. In India, the annual subscription to the Professional tier prices Rs 17,000 when bought instantly from Perplexity.

With the Airtel promotion, a full yr’s subscription is now accessible at no cost, encouraging extra people to enroll and check out it out. This initiative has led to a major variety of subscribers downloading the app by way of App Shops, as utilizing the app is the best technique to entry the AI mannequin.