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Reliance Intelligence, part of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, is building what it describes as India’s sovereign AI backbone in Jamnagar, Gujarat
In sum – what to know:
Sovereign AI infrastructure – Reliance Intelligence is building a sovereign AI backbone in Jamnagar, with the first 120 MW phase due online by the end of 2026.
Affordable AI push – Mukesh Ambani said Reliance aims to “disrupt AI economics” by making AI dramatically more affordable and accessible across India.
Global partnerships – Reliance is deepening partnerships with Google and Meta to expand AI services, enterprise offerings and multilingual AI capabilities.
Indian Conglomerate Reliance Industries is significantly expanding its artificial intelligence ambitions through its new deep-tech initiative, Reliance Intelligence, with plans to deploy large-scale sovereign AI infrastructure and offer multilingual AI services tailored for the Indian market.
Speaking during Reliance Industries’ 49th Annual General Meeting, chairman Mukesh Ambani said the company aims to make AI widely accessible and affordable across India.
“Just as Jio made data extremely affordable for every Indian, Reliance Intelligence will disrupt AI economics by making it dramatically more affordable for every Indian by the end of this decade,” Ambani said.
The executive added that Reliance plans to bring advanced AI capabilities to low-cost devices by combining affordable hardware with network-edge AI inference. “When AI becomes ubiquitous and easily accessible, India will not merely participate in the AI century, it will lead it,” Ambani said.
A key pillar of the strategy is the development of multilingual AI services built specifically for India. “Unlike global AI platforms that build in English and translate later, Jio is building AI natively in Indian languages,” Ambani said.
Reliance Intelligence is also investing heavily in AI infrastructure. Ambani said the company is building what it describes as India’s sovereign AI backbone in Jamnagar, Gujarat. “Our first priority is to surmount the biggest hurdle for AI in India today – the scarcity and high cost of compute,” Ambani said.
According to the executive, the first 120 megawatts of AI infrastructure will be commissioned by the end of 2026 and will be powered entirely by renewable energy generated at Reliance’s Kutch renewable energy complex.
The company is also deploying an initial fleet of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. “In addition, we are operationalizing an initial fleet of advanced Nvidia GB300 GPUs. This next-generation compute capacity is equivalent to more than 75,000 H100 GPUs on an AI-inference basis,” Ambani said.
He added that once the initial 120 MW phase becomes fully operational, the platform could scale to more than 200,000 H100-equivalent GPUs.
Partnerships are also central to Reliance’s AI strategy. Ambani highlighted an expanded collaboration with Google, through which Google AI Pro powered by Gemini is being offered to Jio users.
The company is also deepening its collaboration with Meta. According to Ambani, the two companies are operationalizing Meta’s open-source Llama models for Indian enterprises.
Reliance Intelligence is Reliance Industries’ AI-focused subsidiary unveiled in 2025 to develop AI infrastructure, platforms and services for consumers, enterprises and governments. The initiative aims to build sovereign AI infrastructure in India, including large-scale compute capacity, while delivering AI applications tailored to Indian users and enterprises.
