Reliance to build AI Platforms and Applications
Mumbai, June 19: Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani today announced that the company will build India-first artificial intelligence platforms and applications across consumer, enterprise and government use-cases.
Addressing shareholders at the company’s 49th annual general meeting, he said India must sharply accelerate efforts to become self-reliant in critical technologies, including AI.
Ambani said India should not remain a consumer of AI built elsewhere but “must become a creator, adopter, and a global leader in AI.”
Reliance last year unveiled Reliance Intelligence as its newest growth engine, aiming to build “a profitable AI infrastructure, platform and services business” at scale.
“We must intensify and speed up our efforts to make our country Atmanirbhar in critical resources and technologies,” Ambani said, adding that “maximum energy and AI self-sufficiency must become a national mission.”
He said the company had moved from vision-setting to execution, supported by partnerships with global technology leaders.
“Reliance Intelligence promises AI to everyone everywhere and we shall deliver on this promise too,” Ambani said.
Akash Ambani, Managing Director of Jio Platforms, provided details of the AI stack and applications and Reliance was building a sovereign, secure and affordable AI ecosystem designed for India’s scale and diversity.
Reliance Intelligence will roll out a suite of AI-native applications, including Jio Bharat IQ, AI Vyapar, Jio Health IQ, Jio Learn IQ and Jio Krishi IQ, he said.
These services are designed to operate across 22 Indian languages and target everyday use-cases such as assisting small merchants, supporting healthcare decisions, enabling personalised learning and helping farmers optimise crops, weather and income decisions.
“Each of these services is designed around one simple principle — AI must be easy to use, trusted to rely on, and affordable for all,” Akash Ambani said.
He added that, unlike global platforms that “build in English and translate later,” Jio was building AI natively in Indian languages so that users “get an AI that thinks and replies in their language.”
The group is also embedding AI across its own businesses, he said, citing AI-native network management at Jio, AI-driven merchandising and supply chain optimisation at Reliance Retail, multilingual content creation at its media operations, and process optimisation in its oil-to-chemicals business to improve yields and reduce energy use.
On the infrastructure side, Akash Ambani said Reliance is building India’s sovereign AI backbone in Jamnagar, powered entirely by clean energy from the group’s renewable platform in Kutch.
“The first 120 megawatts will be commissioned by the end of 2026,” he said, adding that the company is operationalising an initial fleet of advanced Nvidia GB300 GPUs. The initial capacity is equivalent to more than 75,000 H100 GPUs on an AI inference basis and can scale to over 2,00,000 H100-equivalent GPUs as the first phase becomes fully operational, he said. (BVI)
