Check out the tech announcements made by Reliance Industries Limited at its 49th Annual General Meeting (post IPO)
Reliance Industries held its 49th Annual General Meeting today for the shareholders. In this meeting, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani shared that the Jio IPO DRHB will be filed with SEBI today and apart from this, Reliance’s future strategy related to AI, Meta-backed Jio Data Centre, satellite connectivity and more were revealed.
Key tech announcements
The Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocom Limited, Akash Ambani, shared that currently Jio is evaluating the development of a sovereign Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation for India to facilitate connectivity to remote villages, island communities and the country’s border outposts. To support this development, Jio is also building its own ground station infrastructure in India. Reliance will also lease temporary capacity from a leading global constellation provider to accelerate initial service availability.
Then it was revealed that Reliance Industries is building India’s sovereign AI backbone in Jamnagar, which will be powered entirely by clean energy from Reliance’s own solar generation from the Kutch renewable platform. The first 120 megawatts will be commissioned by the end of 2026, while the company is also operationalising an initial fleet of advanced NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, with compute capacity equivalent to more than 75,000 H100 GPUs and the potential to scale beyond 2 lakh H100-equivalent GPUs.
The infrastructure for Reliance Intelligence is being built at a rapid pace and is expected to become fully operational over the next couple of years. Reliance Intelligence is said to build multilingual AI services, designed to be accessible in 22 Indian languages to make AI a companion for Indian users.
JioStar GenAI Media Studio or JAMS, an AI-native content production platform designed to support ideation, storytelling, audio and video production, was introduced. The initiative aims to nurture a new generation of creators.
Jio users will soon get an AI Call Agent that can transcribe calls in real time, summarise conversations, complete tasks during calls and works natively on Jio’e network. It is said that over 500 million users could get an AI Assistant built right into calls later this year. The AI-powered agent can be triggered with a voice command during calls. The company will launch 5 new platforms in India- JioBharat IQ, AI Vyapar, JioHealth IQ, JioLearnIQ, and JioKrishi IQ.
It is revealed that JioAirFiber has officially hit 13 million connected homes, and total data traffic on Jio’s network reached a massive 241 exabytes, growing over 30% YoY. Jio wants every customer to be on 5G by 2030 and is also working towards 6G. The MyJio app is becoming an AI assistant. Users will be able to activate eSIMs, buy roaming packs, recharge and manage their account using simple voice commands.
The company also plans to expand affordable electronics manufacturing, including products such as smart eyewear, televisions, smartphones and connected wearables, while maintaining a strong focus on customer service.
