RIL launches AI unit 'Reliance Intelligence' with Google, Meta as strategic partners

Reliance Industries launches AI unit with Google, Meta as strategic partners

Reliance Industries Ltd has unveiled Reliance Intelligence, a new wholly owned unit to drive artificial intelligence in India, pursuing Mukesh Ambani’s ambition to make the conglomerate a “deep-tech enterprise” alongside its telecom, retail and energy businesses.

The company will pursue four missions: building gigawatt-scale, AI-ready data centres in Jamnagar, forging alliances with leading technology firms and open-source communities, rolling out AI services across education, health, agriculture and small business sectors, and attracting world-class AI talent to India.

To realise this, Reliance is turning to Silicon Valley. Ambani announced a “deeper, holistic partnership” with Google, led by Sundar Pichai. "The AI opportunity in India is extraordinary. It will transform every industry and organisation – from the largest enterprises to the smallest kirana store. Google and Reliance are partnering to help all of Reliance's businesses transform, using AI – from Energy and Retail to Telecom and Financial Services. To support this AI adoption, together we are establishing a Jamnagar Cloud region, built for and dedicated to Reliance," Pichai said.

Reliance is also forging a dedicated joint venture with Meta to deliver sovereign, enterprise-ready AI platforms tailored for Indian businesses and government entities. The partnership will combine Meta’s open-source Llama models with Reliance’s reach across energy, telecom, retail and manufacturing. “Together we want to ensure that everyone in India has access to AI — and eventually superintelligence,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, calling the venture a model for how open-source AI can scale securely in a national context.

The launch comes as Reliance pushes beyond its traditional oil-to-chemicals roots into digital services and clean energy. Over the past six years, it has built Jio into India’s largest telecom operator, turned Reliance Retail into a top global retailer by market cap, and committed billions to green energy giga-factories. With Reliance Intelligence, Ambani is betting AI will be the next transformative growth engine — not only powering Reliance’s businesses, but also shaping India’s economic trajectory.

“Jio delivered digital everywhere, for every Indian. Reliance Intelligence will deliver AI everywhere, for every Indian,” Ambani said.

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