Akash Ambani, managing director, of Jio Platforms after the company's impressive Initial Public Offering (IPO), outlined the company’s technology ambitions for the next decade, highlighting artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, connected devices, satellite-based connectivity and digital services as key areas of focus.
\n\nHe said the company aimed to make emerging technologies more accessible to people across India.
\n\nJio Platforms made an impressive debut on the stock exchanges on Wednesday, with its shares opening at Rs 1,358 apiece on the BSE and NSE, a 21.36% premium over the issue price of Rs 1,119.
\n\nJio MD further said the company's ambition was to build a digital society where connectivity, computing and intelligence worked seamlessly together, allowing Indians across regions and languages to participate in the digital economy.
\n\nJio's first decade, he said, had focused on democratising access to mobile data, bringing hundreds of millions of Indians into the digital ecosystem.
\n\n"The next phase would involve making emerging technologies accessible on a similar scale."
\n\nHe also outlined ambitions to establish Jio as a global technology company.
\n\n"My dream is that one day, when the world counts its great technology companies, one of them will be called Jio Platforms Limited," he said.
\n\nIndia was…
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