Mukesh Ambani announces India-focused JV with Meta to leverage open-source AI for enterprises

In line with RIL's major push to dominate India's AI space, similar to how it did with digital services and telecom, its Chairman Mukesh Ambani today announced an India-focused AI joint venture with Mark Zuckerberg-led global tech major Meta. The partnership will leverage Meta's open-source AI models across its various verticals, spanning energy to media. The aim, says Mukesh Ambani, is to create enterprise-ready AI for India.

"Today, I am also pleased to unveil a new, India-focused AI joint venture with our close partner, Meta. Together, we want to pair the power of open-source AI with Reliance’s deep domain knowledge across industries," said Mukesh Ambani at the 48th annual general meeting of RIL.

The JV will develop the open-source AI models, specifically targeting the needs of Indian businesses. "That is why, we are forming a dedicated joint venture with Meta to combine open models and tools with our execution in Energy, Retail, Telecom, Media, and Manufacturing, and to deliver sovereign, enterprise-ready AI for India," said Mukesh Ambani.

The company aims to leverage Meta's open-source AI model Llama's capabilities to boost innovation. "Meta and Reliance are going to deliver our open-source AI models to Indian businesses to help them fuel their work. With Llama, we have seen how AI can amplify human potential, boosting productivity, inspiring creativity, and accelerating innovation. And now, with Reliance’s reach and scale, we can bring this to every corner of India," said Meta CEO and Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

With this partnership, the two companies aim to build their vision for the future, where every entrepreneur, creator, and company has the tools they need to succeed. "I believe that this venture will become a model for how AI – and one day superintelligence – can be delivered to everyone. This is just the beginning," said Zuckerberg.

Mukesh Ambani also talked about another AI frontier i.e. robotics, especially humanoid robotics. He sees intelligent automation transforming factories into adaptive production systems, warehouses into autonomous supply chains, and hospitals into centres of precision care. Ambani said the company is investing heavily to make India a leader in human-centric robotics. "We are investing to make India a leader in human-centric robotics powered by AI, creating new types of industries and services, new types of agriculture, new types of jobs, and attractive new opportunities for our youth," he said.

He also sees AI as a new growth engine for RIL, similar to how digital services became its growth engine in the past decade. "Now, the opportunity before us with AI is just as large, if not larger. Jio promised and delivered digital everywhere and for every Indian. Similarly, Reliance Intelligence promises to deliver AI everywhere for every Indian," said Ambani.

Reliance Intelligence will become a wholly owned subsidiary of RIL, focused on AI. Ambani has said Reliance Intelligence will create India’s next-generation AI infrastructure, which will encompass gigawatt-scale, AI-ready data centres, powered by green energy and engineered for training and inference on a national scale. Ambani unveiled that work has already begun on the gigawatt-scale, and AI-ready data centres. The company aims to deliver these facilities in phases, which will be aligned as per India's needs, and purpose-built for AI training and inference.