Reliance Jio to hire Artificial Intelligence team under Akash Ambani's leadership

Reliance Group's telecom arm Reliance Jio Infocomm has begun the process of hiring a team of professionals under the group's scion Akash Ambani to work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its multiple use cases for the company, said a LiveMint report citing two people aware of the development. Reliance Jio has reportedly not selected the location.
 
“Reliance Jio has hired a few senior people who will build this team...the company wants to set up this team in either Bengaluru or Hyderabad.... Akash Ambani is taking keen interest in this and is expected to lead this initiative,” one of the two people told LiveMint, requesting anonymity.
 
The second person too requesting anonymity, told LiveMint, “Reliance Jio has already started the recruitment process in Bengaluru...apart from AI, it is looking for people who can work on machine learning and blockchain.” 
 
Reliance Jio, which has signed up a subscriber base of 186 million users since its launch in September 2016, is reportedly looking at technologies like blockchain, apart from leveraging the strength of its pure 4G network to move to its next phase of growth. The company reportedly believes that the next phase will be led by 5G, artificial intelligence, internet of things, among others.
 
The latest entrant in India’s telecom sector first pushed its cheap data and free voice services aggressively in the market and followed it up with an “effectively free” Jio Phone available for a refundable security deposit of Rs 1,500. 
 
During his inaugural address at the India Digital Open Summit in Mumbai in January, Akash Ambani had reportedly said, “globally, Artificial Intelligence is becoming one of the mainstream technologies and voice assistance, recognition and command are growing on a daily basis in terms of usage”.

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Earlier in May, Reliance Jio has launched ‘JioInteract’, an artificial intelligence-based platform for movie promotion and brand engagement. The platform also an auto-learning feature that helps improve the answering accuracy, the company had stated, while adding that Reliance Jio is also tapping the developer ecosystem to create innovative applications like virtual showrooms, product demonstrations, ordering cart for e-commerce, etc.