Reliance Intelligence just unveiled its biggest AI bets for India

Reliance is moving from talking about AI to building the infrastructure, partnerships, and products that could shape how India uses artificial intelligence over the next decade. Under the banner of Reliance Intelligence, the company outlined a bold plan to make AI compute cheaper, build sovereign AI capabilities, and embed AI into everyday life for hundreds of millions of Indians.

1. Building India’s sovereign AI backbone in Jamnagar

Reliance’s first big focus is solving one of India’s biggest AI bottlenecks: the lack of affordable, high-quality compute. Training and running advanced AI models requires massive GPU power, which is currently expensive and often hosted outside India.

To tackle this, Reliance Intelligence is building what it calls India’s sovereign AI backbone in Jamnagar. This will be a large-scale, AI-optimized data and compute infrastructure designed to keep critical AI workloads within the country’s borders, under Indian governance and regulations.

The entire backbone will be powered by clean energy from Reliance’s own solar generation at the Kutch renewable platform. The first 120 MW of this green power is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2026, making the AI infrastructure not just powerful, but also sustainable.

2. Massive NVIDIA GPU deployment for affordable AI compute

On top of the green data infrastructure, Reliance is rolling out an initial fleet of advanced NVIDIA GB200 GPUs. These are next-generation AI chips designed for heavy-duty training and inference workloads.

Reliance says this setup will deliver compute equivalent to more than 75,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs for AI inference. As the first 120 MW of power comes fully online, this capacity can scale to the equivalent of over 200,000 (2 lakh) H100-class GPUs.

This kind of scale would place Reliance among the largest AI infrastructure platforms being built anywhere in the world. The goal is simple: once compute becomes dramatically more affordable, AI innovation across India—startups, enterprises, and public sector—becomes far more accessible.

3. Strategic AI partnerships with Google and Meta

Reliance is not trying to build everything alone. Instead, it’s combining global AI technology with Indian infrastructure and local needs through major partnerships.

Google: Gemini-powered AI for Jio users

Reliance’s partnership with Google has evolved into a deeply AI-first collaboration. For hundreds of millions of Jio users, Google AI Pro—powered by Google’s Gemini models—is already available at no extra cost.

This puts advanced conversational AI, search, and assistance tools directly into the hands of mainstream Indian users, not just premium smartphone owners or enterprise customers. If you’re following Gemini’s rapid evolution, this ties in closely with Google’s broader Gemini and AI strategy.

Meta: Llama-based AI for Indian enterprises

Reliance has also formed a joint venture with Meta to operationalize the open-source Llama models for Indian businesses. The idea is to offer enterprises AI models that are transparent, portable, and hosted within India.

Reliance Intelligence will provide sovereign hosting for these models, allowing companies to keep data and AI workloads inside the country while still benefiting from cutting-edge open-source AI. Enterprises will be able to customize and own their AI journeys rather than relying on black-box, foreign-hosted systems.

4. A suite of multilingual AI services for every Indian

On top of the infrastructure and partnerships, Reliance is building a family of AI services designed specifically for Indian users, in Indian languages. The backbone is being built to support AI in 22 Indian languages from day one.

Some of the first applications announced include:

Jio Bharat IQ: AI companion for everyone

Jio Bharat IQ aims to make AI a daily companion for every Indian, not just English-speaking or urban users. It’s designed to work on affordable devices and support everyday tasks, queries, and assistance in local languages.

AI Vyapar: AI for small businesses and merchants

AI Vyapar targets India’s vast base of small merchants and businesses. It’s built to help them improve productivity, manage operations more efficiently, serve customers better, and compete with larger players—using AI tools that are simple and affordable.

Jio Health IQ: AI for healthcare support

Jio Health IQ focuses on bringing intelligent healthcare support closer to families. While details are still emerging, it’s positioned as a way to help people understand health information, make better decisions, and access guidance more easily.

Jio Learn IQ: AI-powered learning in local languages

Jio Learn IQ is aimed at students, helping them learn in their own language, at their own pace, and with more confidence. This could range from homework help to concept explanations and exam prep, all tailored to local curricula and languages.

Jio Krishi IQ: AI for farmers

Jio Krishi IQ is built for farmers, offering AI-driven insights on crops, weather, resource use, and income planning. The goal is to help farmers make better decisions and improve yields, with guidance delivered in their own language and context.

Across all these services, Reliance is sticking to one core principle: AI must be easy to use, trustworthy, and affordable for all.

5. AI inside Reliance: how the group is using its own tech

Reliance isn’t just building AI for others—it’s already using AI deeply across its own businesses.

At Jio, AI-native network management is improving efficiency and service quality at massive scale. In Reliance Retail, AI is being used for merchandising and supply chain optimization, helping reduce waste and ensure better product availability for millions of customers.

Jio Studios is using AI for multilingual content creation, which could mean faster dubbing, subtitling, and localization of movies and shows. In the oil-to-chemicals segment, AI-driven process optimization is improving yields and reducing energy consumption.

Alongside this, Reliance is building a world-class AI team, investing in India’s AI startup ecosystem, and collaborating with leading universities and research institutions to accelerate deep tech innovation—an interesting contrast to concerns that many Indian billionaires have been slow to back deep tech, as discussed in recent analysis of India’s AI investment landscape.

6. Jio’s AI call agent: putting AI directly into phone calls

One of the most striking announcements is Jio’s plan to embed AI directly into the phone network itself. Instead of AI being just another app, Jio wants AI to live inside every call.

Jio already carries around 20 billion minutes of voice every day, making it one of the world’s largest voice carriers. This is where India “lives, talks, works, and connects”—so Reliance is asking: why should AI sit outside the very place people interact the most?

How the Jio AI call agent works

Every Jio customer will be able to invoke an AI agent on any call simply by saying, “Hey Jio.” With the user’s consent, the AI agent can join and stay on the call as long as needed. It will be available in every Indian language.

The agent can:

• Transcribe calls: On conference calls, it can identify up to 10 unique speakers and capture every word in their own language, in real time.

• Summarize and follow up: After the call, it can generate clean minutes, highlight decisions, and create action items tagged to specific people. These can be shared with all participants, and reminders can be set automatically.

• Take actions during the call: Users can ask it to order food, book a cab, reserve a table, or set up a meeting—without leaving the call or opening another app.

In the demo scenario, a user adds colleagues to a call just by naming them, starts real-time transcription, gets a summary and action items via SMS, and then orders pizza for his family on the same call using the AI agent.

This AI call concierge is planned to roll out to Jio’s 500 million-plus users later this year, potentially redefining what a “phone call” can do.

AI for India, by India, to serve the world

Reliance is positioning its AI push as fundamentally India-first. Unlike many global AI platforms that build in English and then translate, Jio says it is building AI natively in Indian languages from the ground up.

That means a farmer asking a question in Marathi or a student learning in Tamil will get responses from an AI that “thinks” and replies in their language, not just a translated version of an English-first model.

With ultra-affordable devices like the Jio Bharat platform (priced at ₹999) and upcoming network-edge AI inference, Reliance aims to bring advanced AI experiences to the most budget-friendly phones. The long-term vision: just as Jio made mobile data extremely affordable, Reliance Intelligence wants to disrupt AI economics and make powerful AI accessible to every Indian by the end of this decade.

If this vision plays out, India won’t just participate in the AI century—it could help lead it, with AI for India, by India, that one day serves users around the world.