India AI Impact Summit: Reliance to invest Rs. 10 lakh crores in 7 years, says Ambani
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced that Jio Platforms, with Reliance, will invest Rs. 10 lakh crores over the next seven years towards AI transformation and connect India to the ‘intelligence era.’
In a keynote address during the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026, he described the massive investment as a “patient, disciplined, nation-building capital” to create durable economic value and strategic resilience for the next six decades.
“India will emerge as one of the greatest AI powers in the world in the 21st century In the coming decades…No country in the world can match India’s strength in demography, femocracy, development, digital infrastructure, data generation and AI harvest.”
Ambani said Jio will connect India to the AI age at a reduced cost considering this country cannot afford to rent intelligence.
“We will reduce the cost of intelligence as dramatically as we did the cost of data,” said Ambani.
Accordingly, Reliance’s AI arm, Jio Intelligence, will build a sovereign compute infrastructure by building gigawatt-scale data centres, using in-house energy resources. The company is currently establishing a multi-gigawatt, AI-ready data-centre at Jamnagar, Gujarat.
“Over 120 MW will come online in the second half of 2026, and a clear path to gigawatt-scale compute for training and large-scale inference will emerge,” he said.
Reliance will also use its in-house energy of up to 10 GW of ready green-power surplus, anchored by solar energy in both Kutch, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh for providing nationwide edge compute.
“An edge-compute layer, deeply integrated with Jio’s network, will make intelligence responsive, low-latency and affordable — close to where Indians live, learn and work. Our resolve is clear: make intelligence as ubiquitous as connectivity. When compute becomes infrastructure, innovation will become inevitable.”
Addressing concerns around potential job loss, Ambani said AI will create new high-skill work opportunities rather than take away jobs. Stating that the AI story has shifted from “Who has the best model” to “Who can build the strongest ecosystem for speed and scale of usage,” he said Jio will build deep partnership ecosystem with Indian enterprises, start-ups, IITs, IISc, and research institutions.
“We will work shoulder-to-shoulder with India’s leading industrial groups to embed AI across manufacturing, logistics, energy, finance, retail, agriculture and healthcare. We will empower start-ups with affordable compute and co-development platforms,” Ambani added.
