Reliance, Google join hands to boost India's AI revolution across consumers, enterprises

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 30 (ANI): Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through Reliance Intelligence Limited, and Google today announced an expansive strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across India , "empowering consumers, enterprises, and developers in line with Reliance's AI for All vision".
This collaboration brings together Reliance's "unmatched scale, connectivity, and ecosystem reach with Google's world-class AI technology", a release said. Together, these initiatives are aimed at democratising AI access and strengthening the digital foundation for India's AI-driven future, the release added.
Google, in partnership with Reliance Intelligence, will begin rolling out Google's AI Pro plan with it the latest version of Google Gemini to eligible Jio users free of charge for 18 months.
This offer includes higher access to Google's most capable Gemini 2.5 Pro model in the Gemini app, higher limits to generate stunning images and videos with their state-of-the-art Nano Banana and Veo 3.1 models, expanded access to Notebook LM for study and research, 2 TB of cloud storage and more. This 18-month offer is worth Rs 35,100.
Eligible Jio users will be able to easily activate this offer via the MyJio app. Reflecting Jio's commitment to empowering India's youth, the rollout will commence with early access for 18- to 25-year-old users on unlimited 5G plans and will swiftly expand to include every Jio customer nationwide in the shortest time possible.
This partnership will also explore bringing more delightful local experiences powered by AI to Jio users, catering to India's rich cultural and linguistic diversity.
In line with its vision of building multi-GW, clean energy-powered, state-of-the-art sovereign
compute capabilities, Reliance announced a partnership with Google Cloud to broaden access to its advanced AI hardware accelerators, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).
This will enable more organisations to train and deploy larger, more complex AI models, as well as deliver faster inferencing to help execute highly demanding projects and accelerate AI adoption across the broader India AI ecosystem.
It will also strengthen India's national AI backbone, supporting the vision articulated by the
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make India a global AI powerhouse, the release said.
"This expanded collaboration also establishes Reliance Intelligence as a strategic go-to-market
partner for Google Cloud, driving the adoption of Gemini Enterprise across Indian organizations.
Gemini Enterprise is a next-generation, unified agentic AI platform for businesses that brings the
best of Google AI to every employee, for every workflow. It empowers teams to discover, create,
share, and run AI agents--all in one secure environment," it added.
Reliance Intelligence will also develop and offer its own pre-built enterprise AI agents in Gemini
Enterprise, expanding the available choice of both Google-built and third-party agents to users.
Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, said, "Reliance Intelligence aims
to make intelligence services accessible to 1.45 billion Indians. Through our collaboration with
strategic and long-term partners like Google, we aim to make India not just AI-enabled but AIempowered - where every citizen and enterprise can harness intelligent tools to create, innovate and grow."

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said, "Reliance is a longstanding partner in
Google's goal of advancing India's digital future - together we've brought affordable internet
access and smartphones to millions. Now, we are bringing this collaboration into the AI era.
Today's announcement will put Google's cutting-edge AI tools in the hands of consumers,
businesses, and India's vibrant developer community. I'm excited for how this partnership will
help expand access to AI across India."
RIL is India's largest private sector company, with a consolidated revenue of Rs 10,71,174 crore, cash profit of Rs 1,46,917 crore and net profit of Rs 81,309 crore for the year ended March 31, 2025.
(ANI)