Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, has unveiled an formidable plan to construct the nation’s AI spine by means of a brand new subsidiary — beginning with strategic partnerships with Google Cloud and Meta.
On the firm’s forty eighth annual normal assembly on Friday, Ambani launched a brand new enterprise known as Reliance Intelligence, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. The brand new enterprise goals to create a national-scale AI infrastructure, together with enterprise instruments and companies for quite a lot of sectors. The transfer comes as India seems to catch up within the world AI race lengthy dominated by the U.S. and China.
“Reliance Intelligence will create a house for world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and product builders, combining the pace of analysis with the rigor of engineering,” Ambani stated in his keynote, “in order that concepts develop into improvements and purposes, offering options to India and the world.”
To kick issues off, Reliance has partnered with Google — certainly one of its main tech companions — to construct a devoted AI cloud infrastructure in India. The community will begin with a significant information middle in Jamnagar, a metropolis within the western state of Gujarat.
The devoted cloud area will allow Reliance to supply AI-focused companies to companies of all sizes, builders, and authorities our bodies, using Jio’s community and its personal power property to help large-scale deployments, the businesses stated of their joint assertion.
“As Reliance’s largest public cloud companion, Google Cloud isn’t solely powering the corporate’s mission-critical workloads, however we’re additionally innovating with you on superior AI initiatives,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated in a video message in the course of the firm’s digital AGM. “That is solely the start.”
Google didn’t instantly reply to a question in regards to the monetary phrases of the partnership.
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Reliance has additionally introduced a three way partnership with Meta, one other of its main tech buyers, to construct and scale enterprise AI options for patrons in India and choose worldwide markets. Beneath the settlement, Reliance and Meta have dedicated a mixed funding of ₹8.55 billion (roughly $100 million) beneath a 70:30 possession break up, respectively.
The partnership will provide Meta’s Llama-based enterprise AI platform-as-a-service, permitting companies to customise, deploy, and handle generative AI fashions to be used instances throughout gross sales, advertising and marketing, IT, customer support, and finance. The three way partnership may even present a collection of pre-configured AI options, the businesses stated.
Reliance’s collaboration comes simply weeks after Meta restructured its AI ventures into a brand new Superintelligence Labs, fueled by an costly string of high AI hires. (Meta has reportedly pausing the hiring spree after concern from shareholders.)
“By this three way partnership, we’re placing Meta’s Llama fashions into real-world use,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in a ready assertion.
The transaction is topic to customary regulatory approvals and is anticipated to shut within the fourth quarter of 2025.
Reliance is planning to increase past India and take its flagship subsidiary, Reliance Jio Platforms to worldwide markets, Ambani stated. Ambani additionally revealed that Jio goals to file for an preliminary public providing within the first half of 2026, following a lot anticipation and preliminary delays.
Reliance can be reportedly eyeing a partnership with OpenAI, which just lately launched its sub-$5 ChatGPT subscription in India and introduced its plans to arrange an workplace in New Delhi later this 12 months. The main points of the partnership are more likely to be introduced throughout Sam Altman’s upcoming go to to India subsequent month, two individuals aware of the matter informed TechCrunch.
Reliance and OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Earlier this 12 months, Reliance’s arch-rival Bharti Airtel, the nation’s second-largest telco after Jio, partnered with Perplexity to supply greater than 360 million Airtel subscribers entry to Perplexity Professional for 12 months.
Reliance has already partnered with Microsoft to supply its Azure cloud platform to Indian enterprises. The corporate additionally gives JioAICloud, a consumer-focused service that gives 100GB of free storage. The patron cloud service has been utilized by 40 million customers and is up to date with voice search help and an AI Create Hub to show photographs into AI-powered reels, collages, and promo movies, the corporate introduced at its annual normal assembly.
Reliance additionally showcased its AI-based sensible glasses, JioFrames, as its reply to Snap’s Spectacles and Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Equally, the corporate is integrating AI into its streaming platform, JioHotstar, which has attracted over 600 million customers and 300 million paying subscribers within the three months since its launch in February.
The brand new AI options embrace “Riya” voice assistant and content material translation into Indian languages utilizing AI-voice cloning and lip-syncing tech.
