Jio building world's best AI infrastructure in India: Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani speaks at the Bengal Global Business Summit

Amid a global race for AI dominance, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Wednesday said that Jio is currently building the world's best Artificial Intelligence infrastructure in India.

Speaking at the Bengal Global Business Summit, the industrialist said that Artificial Intelligence is indispensable for India's transformation into a deep tech nation with advanced manufacturing capabilities.

He added that data centres are at the heart of AI infrastructure and announced that Reliance Jio's data centre in Kolkata will be a state-of-the-art AI ready facility.

"It gives me great pleasure to announce that we have modified our data centre in Kolkata to a state-of-the-art AI ready data centre which will be ready in the next 9 months," Mukesh Ambani said at the summit in the presence of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

He said that Jio's fully indigenous 5G stack coupled with the rapid rollout of Jio Fiber and Air Fiber will enable West Bengal to use AI, cloud computing and other disruptive technology to moddernise every sector of the state economy.

"This transformation will unleash new employment and entrepreneurial opportunities to millions in Bengal," he said.

The RIL chairman hoped that Jio's AI infrastructure will also attract the best minds in the Bengali diaspora to return to the state and start new enterprises and professions.

Earlier, during the summit, Mukesh Ambani said that now is the best time to invest in West Bengal. "Today, Bengal means soaring vision, mighty ambition, efficient implementation," he said.