Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries has launched a new subsidiary, Reliance Intelligence, with plans to create a national-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure and commercial AI services with India and beyond.
Building a national AI backbone
The new unit will be dedicated to building large-scale AI systems, tools for businesses, and platforms that pair research teams with engineering squads to push prototypes into production. The push aims to address sectors that stretch from telecom and finance to media and government, tapping into the company’s present digital and energy businesses, Reliance says.
Google Cloud to host an Indian AI region
Reliance said it had entered into a partnership with Google Cloud to build a new, AI-powered cloud service tailored to Indian customers. The first computing infrastructure will be located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and will be built to offer large-scale model training and inference adjacent to Jio’s next-generation core network and its energy assets.
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai hailed the initiative as an extension of the companies’ current cloud partnership, while describing the partnership as helping to speed up advanced AI work for Indian businesses. The deal highlights the increasing presence of Google Cloud in India and the work being done as hyperscalers build out more local data centers to comply with regulations and reduce latency.
Meta teams up with an enterprise AI joint venture
Reliance also said it is forming a joint venture that it will majority own with Meta to package and deliver enterprise-grade generative AI offerings based on meta’s llama family of models. As per the agreement, the partners agreed to invest an aggregate investment of approximately ₹855 crore with the Reliance owning a 70/30 stake on the Roha unit.
Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, cast the deal as putting Meta’s Llama models into real-world use for sales, marketing, customer service and other enterprise tasks. The effort will provide platform-as-a-service for customizing, deploying and operating generative AI models as well as preconfigured industry solutions.
Regulatory clearances and expansion plans
Both deals are conditional on approvals from Indian regulators, including competition and telecom authorities. Reliance says it plans to expand these offerings beyond India as part of Jio Platforms’ wider international ambitions.