{"podcast":{"title":"Daybreak","slug":"daybreak-5886514","podcast_index_feed_id":5886514,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/daybreak-3e66db67-ddb3-4cd3-9ba9-460bd586dcbb","website_url":"https://the-ken.com/podcasts/daybreak/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Rt-MphGW4guEnb5R-2LjdE-AT6d9TYlATK0FInBEFEo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ODhl/ZWM4NmEwZTcxZjZk/MDRlYjAzNTNkMjJi/ZGQ2YS5wbmc.jpg","author":"The Ken","episode_count":839,"summary":"Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and powerful. Hosted from The Ken’s newsroom by Snigdha Sharma and Rachel Varghese, Daybreak relies on years of original reporting and analysis by some of India’s most experienced and talented business journalists.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T20:18:41.055736+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514"},"episode":{"title":"Google and Perplexity paid Jio and Airtel a fortune to reach Indian users. OpenAI paid nobody","slug":"google-and-perplexity-paid-jio-and-airtel-a-fortune-to-reach-indian-users-openai-paid-nobody","published_at":"2026-06-22T20:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514/google-and-perplexity-paid-jio-and-airtel-a-fortune-to-reach-indian-users-openai-paid-nobody","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/107c3362","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/107c3362/028f9dad.mp3","summary":"India's telcos looked like the obvious gateway for AI companies chasing scale. With nearly 900 million subscribers between them, Jio and Airtel could put an AI product in front of more users faster than almost any other distribution channel in the world. So Google paid Jio and Perplexity paid Airtel. Both spent tens of thousands of rupees per user to make it work. One partnership is still standing but the other collapsed before its time was up. And OpenAI — the company with the largest AI user base in India — skipped the telco route entirely. What does OpenAI know about this model that the others are still learning? Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.","meta_description":"India's telcos looked like the obvious gateway for AI companies chasing scale. With nearly 900 million subscribers between them, Jio and Airtel could put…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":540,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daybreak-5886514/episodes/google-and-perplexity-paid-jio-and-airtel-a-fortune-to-reach-indian-users-openai-paid-nobody/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514/google-and-perplexity-paid-jio-and-airtel-a-fortune-to-reach-indian-users-openai-paid-nobody.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}