Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Industries has secured a spot as the sole Indian company in the top 30 publicly traded global technology firms according to a comprehensive 340-page report titled Trends - Artificial Intelligence. The report shows the rapid global adoption and transformative influence of AI technologies. The ranking is also based on market capitalization so it kept Reliance Industries among the worlds tech leaders. The top eight positions are dominated by US giants like Microsoft Nvidia Apple Amazon Alphabet Meta Platforms Tesla and Broadcom. Taiwans TSMC is ranked 9th followed by Chinas Tencent. Reliance with a market capitalisation of USD 216 billion is ranked 23rd according to the list. Over the past 30 years (1995-2025) just five companies remained on the top 30 most highly valued publicly traded global technology companies - Microsoft Oracle Cisco IBM and AT&T the report said. It went on to list Reliance alongside the likes of Nvidia Apple Amazon Alphabet Meta Tesla Alibaba Salesforce and China Mobile as the new entrants. In 1995 the USA had 53 per cent (16 of 30) of the most valuable tech companies and 70 per cent (21 of 30) in 2025 it said. In 1995 Japan had 30 per cent (9 of 30) of top tech companies and zero in 2025. The UK Singapore Hong Kong Mexico and Malaysia had 1 each but now none are on the list. In 2025 new geographic entrants include China with 3 Germany with 2 Taiwan with 1 Netherlands with 1 South Korea with 1 and India with 1 it said. Taiwan has only one company on the list - TSMC - the company produces 80-90 per cent of the worlds most advanced semiconductors and 62 per cent of global semiconductors. According to the report India has the most number of ChatGPT mobile app users in the world. It accounts for 13.5 per cent of monthly active users of the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI. It is ahead of the USA (8.9 per cent) Indonesia (5.7 per cent) and Brazil (5.4 per cent). Pakistan has 3 per cent of users. India also accounts for 6.9 per cent of active global users of Chinese AI app DeepSeek behind China (33.9 per cent) and Russia (9.2 per cent). Artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern landscape at breakneck speed. What began as research has scaled into emerging core infrastructure across industries - powering everything from customer support to software development scientific discovery education and manufacturing the report said. AI it said is accelerating touching more domains and becoming more embedded in how work gets done. Catalysing this growth is the global availability of easy-to-use multimodal AI tools (like ChatGPT) on pervasive mobile devices augmented by a steep decline in inference costs and an explosion in model availability. Both closed and open-source tools are now widely accessible and increasingly capable enabling solo developers startups and enterprises alike to experiment and deploy with minimal friction it said. Whether through embedded intelligence in SaaS or agentic workflows in consumer apps the interface layer is being rewritten in real time. On the computer side investment continues to scale dramatically. Capital expenditures across major cloud providers chipmakers and hyperscalers have hit new highs driven by the race to enable real-time high-volume inference at scale. The investment is not just in chips but also in new data centres networking infrastructure and energy systems to support growing demand. Whether this level of capital expenditure persists remains to be seen but as AI moves closer to the edge – in vehicles farms labs and homes – distinction between digital and physical infrastructure continues to blur the report said.  (With Inputs From PTI)