Reliance Industries today said that it would be expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, in order to propel India’s capabilities in the domain of artificial intelligence (AI).

The announcement, which came during the 48th annual general meeting of the oil-to-tech conglomerate, further said that both Reliance and Google together have been an integral part of India’s digital journey, and this new collaboration would build upon existing relationship in order to deliver a cutting-edge and secure AI infrastructure, which will be powered by green energy and will leverage Reliance Jio’s extensive digital footprint.

“Under the partnership, Google Cloud and Reliance will work together to deliver the performance, reliability, and security required to support one of the world’s fastest-growing retail ecosystems. The collaboration will also help all of Reliance’s businesses transform using AI. RIL will design, build, and power the state-of-the-art cloud facility and associated network infrastructure at Jamnagar. The cloud region will be fully compliant with Google Cloud’s global specifications and service-level standards, to enable the most demanding AI workloads,” the two companies said in a joint statement.

As per the statement, Google’s cloud computing infrastructure would work to enhance RIL’s existing infrastructure and power it with AI. This will, in turn, help RIL to provide high-performance services to other enterprises, startups, organisations and many more.

“Building on its leadership in AI, Google Cloud will deploy its powerful AI hypercomputer and secure, fully integrated and optimized AI stack that offers generative AI models, development platform, and AI-powered applications,” the statement read.

In this endeavour, Jio will provide high-capacity fiber connectivity, that will link Jamnagar in Gujarat to other Tier-1 cities, like Delhi and Mumbai.

Talking about the collaboration, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and MD of RIL, said that this collaboration with Google will unveil a ‘new chapter’ in India’s phenomenal digital journey.

“By bringing Google Cloud’s AI capabilities to Jamnagar, supported by Reliance’s infrastructure, renewable energy, and nationwide network, we are laying the foundation for India to become a global leader in AI. Just as Jio and Google came together to democratize the internet for every Indian, we will now democratize intelligence for every Indian,” Ambani noted.

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet, said: “At Google, we’ve long been investing in India’s digital future, and our partnership with Reliance and Jio has been an important part of how we do that. Our work together over the last decade has helped bring affordable internet access to millions. And now, we are building on this to help shape the next leap with AI. This is only the beginning, and we look forward to building India’s AI future together.”

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