Key Highlights:
- Meta and Reliance will together offer an AI-ready platform to businesses of all scale in India.
- Reliance will help Meta expand its reach of AI services through its digital distribution network of Jio.
- The Reliance Group now holds a partnership with Meta, Nvidia, and BlackRock, all of which are using AI to scale their businesses.
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries recently set up a new AI venture called Reliance Enterprise Intelligence Limited (REIL) to develop AI technologies. Meta has now officially acquired a 30% stake in this company, making it a joint venture between the Reliance Group and Mark Zuckerberg’s entity. This plan was originally announced at the Reliance Annual General Meeting in August 2025 with the ambition of making AI accessible to all businesses in India and globally.
Meta’s Investment in Reliance Enterprise Intelligence
Meta and Reliance have committed a Rs 855 crore ($100 million) investment in REIL to develop and distribute enterprise level AI solutions. The partnership aims to serve two main products, with the primary goal of offering a platform-as-a-service backed by AI to all businesses. It will also develop custom generative AI models in niche categories like sales, marketing, customer support, and more.
Reliance will get access to Meta’s Llama AI models, where the Zuckerberg-owned company will help to integrate advanced logic and reasoning solutions in business-ready tools. In return, Meta will get access to the digital infrastructure of Reliance, and help them reach thousands of SMEs across India through its wide distribution network.
Both Meta and Reliance say that their solutions will make AI more affordable. It will also be easy to deploy and scale at any level or premises. However, the newly formed JV did not share any technical details of this project.
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The Zuckerberg-Ambani Alliance
Meta and Reliance have a long-standing partnership which dates back to 2020, when Facebook invested over $5 billion in Jio Platforms, the digital distribution venture of the Reliance Group. It also makes Meta a stakeholder in the Jio telecom company, the largest cellular operator in India. The scale of investment in REIL is quite small when compared to the total business shared between the two giants.
Back in 2015, when Reliance Communications was still in business, Facebook partnered with the Anil Ambani enterprise to offer free access to Facebook Basic to all RCom users, even without an internet pack. This was a huge deal back in the day because India was primarily using expensice 2G and 3G services with limited set of users. Although this move was pulled back because of net neutrality, it highlights that Mark Zuckerberg and the Ambani Family have had close business relations for over a decade.
Reliance’s Big Bet at India’s AI Revolution
Meta is not the only company that Reliance has partnered with for AI services. At the Nvidia AI Summit 2024 in Mumbai, Reliance joined hands with Nvidia to set up a new partnership to build India-specific AI large language models. The concept is similar to the Reliance-Meta JV, where Nvidia will access Jio’s digital systems to improve its distribution, while Reliance will benefit from Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and other technical expertise.
Nvidia is also scaling its R&D centres in India with help from Reliance. These moves make it clear that the Ambani-led congolomerate has a distant vision for India’s participation in the AI race.
