{"id":1044468,"date":"2026-10-19T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044468"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:57:48","slug":"from-shareholders-to-partners-how-google-and-metas-jio-investments-evolved-into-an-ai-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/from-shareholders-to-partners-how-google-and-metas-jio-investments-evolved-into-an-ai-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"From shareholders to partners: How Google and Meta\u2019s Jio investments evolved into an AI alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Meta and Google invested in Jio Platforms in 2020, the deals were seen as strategic bets on India\u2019s growing digital economy. Five years later, the two technology companies have moved beyond being minority shareholders in Reliance\u2019s digital arm. They now operate as partners in the conglomerate\u2019s artificial intelligence push.<\/p>\n<p>Meta is working with Reliance through a 70:30 enterprise-AI joint venture built around its open-source Llama models. Google, meanwhile, is partnering with Reliance to establish a dedicated cloud region in Jamnagar, powered by Reliance\u2019s clean energy and connected through Jio\u2019s network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Meta and Google invested in Jio Platforms in 2020, the deals were seen as strategic bets on India\u2019s growing digital economy. Five years later, the two technology companies have moved beyond being minority shareholders in Reliance\u2019s digital arm. They now operate as partners in the conglomerate\u2019s artificial intelligence push. Meta is working with Reliance through a 70:30 enterprise-AI joint venture built around its open-source Llama models. Google, meanwhile, is partnering with Reliance to establish a dedicated cloud region in Jamnagar, powered by Reliance\u2019s clean energy and connected through Jio\u2019s network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044469,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044468\/revisions\/1044469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}