Mukesh Ambani announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 that Jio and Reliance will invest Rs 10 lakh crore in Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the next seven years. Their aim is to make India a global AI superpower of the 21st century. This investment will also strengthen digital infrastructure, startup ecosystem and data usage.

AI Investment: Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 that Jio and Reliance will invest a total of Rs 10 lakh crore in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the next seven years. In this summit organized in New Delhi, Ambani shared plans to make India a global AI superpower of the 21st century. He described digital infrastructure, data usage and startup ecosystem as the basis of AI revolution and said that this investment will strengthen India’s technology sector.

digital and data base

Mukesh Ambani described India’s digital power, data usage and startup ecosystem as the basis of AI revolution. He said that India is the world’s largest mobile data consumer and there are about 1 billion internet users in the country. The cost of data is extremely low and even the most remote areas of the country are at par in data quality.

Moreover, India has 100,000 startups and more than 100 unicorn companies. According to Ambani, the digital public infrastructure stack is secure and inclusive, which is now being adopted by many countries across the world. With more than 500 million loyal subscribers, Jio has the opportunity to play a leading role in broadband, 4G, 5G and home connectivity.

Challenges and solutions in AI

Mukesh Ambani said that the biggest hurdle in AI is not talent or imagination, but compute capacity and high cost. He expressed confidence that Jio will make technical and economic investments to overcome this challenge, making AI solutions affordable and widely available in the country.

This investment by Mukesh Ambani is going to take India’s AI capability to new heights and give the country a strong position in the global technology landscape. These investments in AI will also strengthen the startup ecosystem, data infrastructure and digital services in the coming years.