{"id":61795,"date":"2025-08-11T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61795\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:58:09","slug":"bell-to-provide-customers-free-access-to-perplexity-pro-for-a-year-in-latest-ai-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61795\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell to provide customers free access to Perplexity Pro for a year in latest AI move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">MONTREAL \u2014 Bell Canada is partnering with Perplexity, an AI-powered conversational search engine, to give its customers a year of free artificial intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">It marks another step in the telecommunications company&#8217;s foray into the AI space, having also signed a deal last month with Cohere to provide full-stack sovereign AI solutions for government and business customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Bell says its partnership with Perplexity will give eligible cellphone and internet customers access to Perplexity Pro, which is valued at nearly $300 for yearly subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Perplexity Pro provides customers the ability to use AI models such as GPT-5, Claude 4.0 and Gemini 2.5 Pro, which can support tasks ranging from research and writing, to content planning and data analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Mobile customers will receive codes to redeem their free subscription in the coming days via email, text and their MyBell accounts, while internet customers will receive access starting this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Bell&#8217;s venture into AI also includes Bell AI Fabric, a project announced in May to support Canadian businesses&#8217; and governments&#8217; AI needs, with a plan to open six AI data centres providing around 500 megawatts of hydroelectric-powered compute capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Companies in this story: (TSX:BCE)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Bell Canada is partnering with Perplexity, an AI-powered conversational search engine, to give its customers a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,40175,49,48,40176,6592,61,40177],"class_list":{"0":"post-61795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-bell-canada","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-internet-customers","15":"tag-perplexity","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-telecommunications-company"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}