Reliance Industries—the energy-to-telecom conglomerate controlled by India’s richest person Mukesh Ambani—signed deals with Meta and Google to develop AI platforms in India as its mobile carrier Reliance Jio prepares for a mega IPO next year.
Speaking at the company’s shareholders meeting on Friday, Ambani said that the company is making the arrangements for Jio’s IPO and aiming to list India’s largest wireless carrier by the first half of 2026.
“I assure you that this will demonstrate that Jio is capable of creating the same quantum of value like our global counterparts,” Ambani told shareholders. “I am sure that it will be a very attractive opportunity for all investors.”
Ambani said Reliance is also developing AI applications as a new growth engine. The push into AI will be spearheaded by a newly created unit Reliance Intelligence, which would develop India’s next-generation AI infrastructure and build a gigawatt-scale data center in Jamnagar, a coastal town in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
