RIL Incorporates New AI Subsidiary ‘Reliance Intelligence’

Amid the global AI boom, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) MD and chairman Mukesh Ambani announced the company’s plans to incorporate a wholly owned AI subsidiary, Reliance Intelligence. 

Speaking at RIL’s  48th AGM, Ambani said the subsidiary will have four agendas: 

• Building next-generation AI infrastructure: The subsidiary will build gigawatt scale AI data centres. “Work has already begun on the gigawatt scale AI ready data centres in Jamnagar,” Ambani said. 
• House global partnerships: To bring world’s best tech companies to work together on AI products. 
• AI services: It will offer India-focussed AI services. The subsidiary aims to deliver easy-to-use AI services to consumers, small businesses and enterprises. Besides, it will provide solutions for sectors of national importance, such as education, healthcare and agriculture. 
• Talent: Reliance Intelligence aims to create a home for world class researchers, engineers, designers, to convert ideas to innovations, Ambani said 

For this subsidiary, RIL also announced a partnership with tech giant Google. “Through this partnership, we are marrying Reliance’s proven capability to build world class assets and execute at India scale with Google’s leading cloud and AI technology so that developers, startups and enterprises can innovate faster, operate more securely, and reach every corner of India,” the MD said. 

Besides Google, RIL also announced a joint venture with Facebook parent Meta to propel its AI ambitions. The JV will leverage Meta’s open-source Llama models to create AI solutions tailored for specific business needs in areas like sales, marketing, IT, customer service, finance, among others. 

Further, the JV will introduce a secure full-stack environment for organisations to customise and deploy GenAI applications and offer a suite of pre‑configured AI solutions designed to address both cross‑functional and industry‑specific use cases.

During the AGM, RIL made a host of announcements pertaining to different aspects of its business empire. The biggest among these was RIL’s plans to go for a public listing of its technology business, Jio, in the first half of 2026. 

The company also unveiled AI-powered smart glasses ‘Jio Frames’ and next-generation Jio AI Cloud. 

However, AI was the recurrent theme of the AGM today. “We are resolutely transforming our operating model to become a deeptech company with advanced manufacturing capabilities. We are making every one of our businesses AI-native, positioning them for hyper-growth,” Ambani said.

This comes as AI adoption is rapidly accelerating in the country, making India one of the largest and fastest growing markets. Last week, ChatGPT parent OpenAI launched its OpenAI Learning Accelerator program. It has also launched a new subscription plan in India called ChatGPT Go, priced at INR 399 per month.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman is also scheduled to visit the country in September. “AI adoption in India has been amazing to watch – ChatGPT users grew 4X in the past year – and we are excited to invest much more in India!” Altman said in a post on X.

The country’s AI startup ecosystem is also buzzing with activity, with over $1.5 Bn raised by native startups between 2022 and Q1 2025, as per Inc42 data.

Shares of RIL ended the day down 2.21% at INR 1,357.05.