Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Sunday expressed interest in working with the Indian government to make the pro version of his artificial intelligence search engine available en-masse to students, faculty and researchers in India.

Srinivasan said he would be “down to figuring out an economic structure” to make such an event possible of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was interested.

The Perplexity CEO who was born in Tamil Nadu and went to college at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras made the suggestion after the central government’s “One Nation One Subscription” deal garnered international praise.

Modi government will be shelling out $715 million (₹6,058 Crore) over the next three years to dozens of international publishers in exchange for an estimated 1.8 Crore students, faculty and researchers in India getting free access to important scientific research journals.

The central government’s move has attracted massive attention from the U.S. tech industry in particular, primarily as people reminisce the case of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, who was arrested at MIT following his attempts at making research papers publicly accessible.

Swartz died by suicide at the age of 26 in 2013, following the intense legal issues surrounding him.

Meanwhile, Perplexity is a major player in the business-to-consumer (b2c) AI space — alongside ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Claude maker Anthropic and Gemini parent Google.

Srinivasan, who often tweets his interest in India-related matters, found an early backer in Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Bezos was disclosed to have invested in the company at a valuation of about $520 million. According to a Wall Street Journal report in October, Perplexity valuation in a new under-discussion private funding roun has shot up to be around a whopping $8 billion.