JIO is gearing up to build affordable AI services in India by partnering with top players like Nvidia for the world’s best GPUs.
The India AI mission has reached an on-ground action stage with major tech players participating actively in the 10,300 Crore initiative. Reliance JIO Platforms has partnered with Nvidia to secure their high-end Blackwell GPUs and build an AI infrastructure that offers affordable AI-as-a-service and AI agents in India.
Reliance Industries has been gearing up to disrupt the AI industry in India by forming various strategic, infrastructure, and tech partnerships to fuel its AI expansion strategies. Reliance Industries LTD. is working from the bottom up, starting from building mass AI infrastructure.
“There are three factors to accessible and affordable AI – the device, the data (on the cloud), and high-speed broadband networks, and Jio is working on all these so that every individual can have a personal AI agency based on his needs and likes,” told an internal member to a leading newspaper on the condition of anonymity.
The company aims to develop AI use cases to help retail, healthcare, agriculture, and education industries, the core pillars of India’s development. One can easily build trust in JIO’s AI strategy by tracing its impressive former strategy to dominate the telecom industry by slashing data usage costs.
RIL is building a 1 GigaWatt data center in Jamnagar that is huge enough to accommodate internal and commercial use. By combining the power of the new AI data center with Nvidia’s Blackwell Chips, RIL plans to build JIO-branded AI products and services on large language models. Reliance is also exploring monetization methods to offer an enterprise AI suite with JIO Brain.
The India AI Mission initiative has passed a budget of INR 10,300 Crore, out of which INR 5,000 Crore will be exclusively allocated to provide AI computing hardware and empaneling cloud providers and data centers. Through this move, the government aims to provide AI computation GPUs at a subsidized rate to individuals and businesses.
“The AI Mission is a government initiative to offer GPUs at a subsidized cost. For instance, assuming the price is Rs 25 per GPU hour, the government will subsidize Rs 5-10 out of that. We (Jio and others) as vendors will compete to offer lower prices to Rs 25,” the executive explained.
JIO Brain, the AI suite for enterprises, is housed under the JIO Platforms umbrella and will focus primarily on supporting end-to-end workflows for quicker and smarter decision-making. The AI suite will be tested in-house on efficacy, capability, and scalability before being offered to other entities.
