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Ambani maps AI push
Mukesh Ambani told shareholders at Reliance Industries’ 49th Annual General Meeting that India must move beyond merely consuming technologies developed elsewhere and become a global innovator in artificial intelligence, while also treating self-reliance in energy and AI as national priorities.
““India should not be a mere consumer of AI created elsewhere. It must become a creator, adopter, and a global leader in AI,” Ambani said.”
Ambani said Reliance is stepping up investments in artificial intelligence and renewable energy, advancing its AI initiative Reliance Intelligence as the company’s “newest growth engine” intended to build a large-scale AI ecosystem serving consumers, businesses and government institutions.
At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Reliance also unveiled an investment plan of about 10,000 billion rupees, roughly $110 billion, in AI infrastructure and data centers in India over a seven-year period.
DCmag reported that Reliance has committed to building large-scale data centers powered by renewable energy sources at the gigawatt scale, and that Reliance operates up to 10 GW of surplus green energy from its solar projects in Kutch and Andhra Pradesh.
Ambani framed the effort as a shift from adoption to creation, saying, “India should not be a mere consumer of AI created elsewhere. It must become a creator, adopter, and a global leader in AI.”
Execution, partners, and costs
Ambani said Reliance is now entering the execution phase of its AI strategy, describing Reliance Intelligence as aimed at building a profitable AI infrastructure, platform, and services business serving consumers, enterprise, and governments at scale.
He also argued that the major obstacle is no longer talent, but the high cost and scarcity of computing power, adding, “India cannot afford to rent intelligence,” as Reliance seeks to reduce AI costs.
Reliance’s roadmap includes a multi-gigawatt campus in Jamnagar (Gujarat), with more than 120 MW of capacity expected to come online by late 2026, and an integrated edge computing infrastructure within Jio’s extensive 5G network.
The Economic Times said Jio Chairman Akash Ambani described Reliance Intelligence as building what he called “India's sovereign AI backbone,” and it said the Jamnagar data centre is powered entirely by renewable energy generated from Reliance's Kutch energy complex.
In addition to infrastructure, Reliance’s AGM announcements included an AI agent embedded into the telecom network, with the service activated by saying “Hey Jio,” and the Economic Times said it can transcribe calls and generate summaries.
AI products and labor stakes
Beyond data centers, Reliance used the AGM to showcase AI products for calls, merchants, and homes, with TechCrunch describing Jio Call Agent as an AI assistant that can join phone calls to transcribe conversations and perform tasks like booking cabs, ordering food, and making reservations.
““Unlike global AI platforms that build in English and translate later, Jio is building AI natively in Indian languages,””
TechCrunch said the service can be activated by saying “Hey Jio,” and it reported that Reliance also introduced TeleFrame, a home display that uses AI agents to proactively surface information and recommendations such as weather alerts, schedules, and household reminders.
The Economic Times said Reliance’s AI services are being built to operate across 22 Indian languages, and it quoted Ambani saying, “Unlike global AI platforms that build in English and translate later, Jio is building AI natively in Indian languages.”
In its labor-market framing, TradingView reported Ambani’s promise that “Nous prouverons que l'IA ne détruit pas les emplois. Et qu'elle crée plutôt des opportunités d'emplois nouveaux et très qualifiés”.
TradingView also said Ambani described the $110 billion effort as “Ce n'est pas un investissement spéculatif (...) il s'agit d'un effort patient, réfléchi et national destiné à créer une économie durable et une résilience stratégique,” tying the AI push to economic resilience and employment creation.
