Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the country’s AI backbone through a new subsidiary, starting with strategic partnerships with Google Cloud and Meta. At the company’s 48th annual general meeting, Ambani launched a new venture called Reliance Intelligence, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. The new venture aims to create a national-scale AI infrastructure, including enterprise tools and services for a variety of sectors. The move comes as India looks to catch up in the global AI race long dominated by the United States and China.
Reliance Intelligence will create a home for world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and product builders, combining the speed of research with the rigor of engineering so that ideas become innovations and applications, providing solutions to India and the world.
To begin, Reliance has partnered with Google to build a dedicated AI cloud infrastructure in India. The network will start with a major data center in Jamnagar, a city in the western state of Gujarat. The dedicated cloud region will enable Reliance to offer AI-focused services to businesses of all sizes, developers, and government bodies, utilizing Jio’s network and its own energy assets to support large-scale deployments.
As Reliance’s largest public cloud partner, Google Cloud is not only powering the company’s mission-critical workloads but also innovating with them on advanced AI initiatives. Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that this is only the beginning.
Reliance has also announced a joint venture with Meta to build and scale enterprise AI solutions for customers in India and select international markets. Under the agreement, Reliance and Meta have committed a combined investment of approximately 100 million dollars under a 70:30 ownership split, respectively.
The partnership will offer Meta’s Llama-based enterprise AI platform-as-a-service, allowing businesses to customize, deploy, and manage generative AI models for use cases across sales, marketing, IT, customer service, and finance. The joint venture will also provide a suite of pre-configured AI solutions. This collaboration comes just weeks after Meta restructured its AI ventures into a new Superintelligence Labs. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Reliance is planning to expand beyond India and take its flagship subsidiary, Reliance Jio Platforms, to international markets. Ambani also revealed that Jio aims to file for an initial public offering in the first half of 2026.
Reliance is also reportedly eyeing a partnership with OpenAI, which recently introduced its sub-five dollar ChatGPT subscription in India and announced plans to set up an office in New Delhi later this year. The details of the partnership are likely to be announced during Sam Altman’s upcoming visit to India next month.
Earlier this year, Reliance’s arch-rival Bharti Airtel, the country’s second-largest telco after Jio, partnered with Perplexity to offer its subscribers access to Perplexity Pro for twelve months.
Reliance has already partnered with Microsoft to offer its Azure cloud platform to Indian enterprises. The company also offers JioAICloud, a consumer-focused service that provides free storage. The consumer cloud service has been used by 40 million users and is updated with voice search support and an AI Create Hub to turn photos into AI-powered reels, collages, and promo videos.
Reliance also showcased its AI-based smart glasses, JioFrames, as its answer to similar products from other tech giants. Similarly, the company is integrating AI into its streaming platform, JioHotstar, which has attracted a massive user base. The new AI features include a voice assistant named Riya and content translation into Indian languages using AI-voice cloning and lip-syncing technology.