The North News
Chandigarh, August 30
The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced a joint venture with Meta to develop and scale enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in India and select global markets on Saturday. The partnership, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is expected to be finalised by the fourth quarter of 2025. It involves an initial investment of about ₹855 crore ($100m), with Reliance holding a 70% stake and Meta 30%.
The new entity will use Meta’s open-source Llama models alongside Reliance’s digital ecosystem to deliver enterprise AI services at scale. It will operate as a secure platform-as-a-service, allowing businesses to customise, deploy and manage generative AI models for operations such as sales, IT, finance and customer service.
It will also offer pre-configured AI solutions tailored to industry-specific and cross-functional needs, while promising lower costs of ownership and flexible deployment across cloud and on-premise systems.
Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani said the collaboration would “democratise enterprise AI” for Indian businesses of all sizes, adding that Reliance itself would act as a testbed for large-scale applications.
Meta’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the partnership would bring Llama models into real-world enterprise use, strengthen Meta’s AI presence and give Indian developers access to advanced tools.
