A new technological gamechanger: Can RIL do a Jio in AI services?

To ensure that AI is available to everyone, Reliance is building a delivery model where AI services and processing will be hosted on the Cloud over low latency broadband networks

Eight years ago, Reliance shook up the telecom market with rock-bottom data prices — a fourth of the global average — and free voice calls on its 4G network. That made India one of the world’s largest data markets.

Now the Mukesh Ambani-led conglomerate is getting ready to trigger another disruption by “democratising” the benefits of the hottest new technological gamechanger: Artificial intelligence (AI).

At Reliance Industries’ 47th annual general meeting last week, Chairman Ambani spent a sizeable portion of his speech on AI and deep tech such as JioBrain, an AI service platform meant to scale up operations