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Ola Electric Founder Bhavish Aggarwal Has Announced Krutrim AI Labs

Ankur Sachdev

Key Highlights

  • Ola Electric founder Bhavish Aggarwal has announced Krutrim AI Labs with different models.

  • Bhavish Aggarwal has also announced investment of ₹2,000 in Krutrim.

  • Objective is to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) better in Indian context.


India, that is Bharat, is making progress in the direction of having world’s best AI technology in its backyard. The most recent development has been announced by Ola Electric Founder Bhavish Aggarwal. He has announced Krutrim AI Labs which aims to bring together the AI community of the country and help them make huge strides across the globe.


Ola Electric founder Bhavish Aggarwal announces Krutrim AI Labs.
Source: Krutrim AI Labs Website

Ola Electric founder has acknowledged that Krutrim AI Labs is coming after one year of hard work. Bhavish Aggarwal has also said that they have a long way to go from the point where they are standing right now.


Ola Electric Founder Announces Krutrim AI Labs

Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder of Ola Electric, has announced Krutrim AI Labs through an X post. The focus of the team behind the AI Lab is to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) better in Indian languages, in cultural context, and in data scarcity, among other aspects. The project has been released to the open-source community, also making it convenient for members to review technical reports.



Ola Electric founder has listed different models that have been released with Krutrim AI Labs. These are Krutrim 2 & Krutrim 1 LLMs, Chitrarth 1, Dhwani 1, Vyakhyarth 1, and Krutrim Translate 1.


Krutrim 1 is a basic 7B model that will now see an improved model, Krutrim 2, serve users more efficiently. Chitrath 1 has been built on top of Krutrim 1 with the capability to understand not only images but also documents. Hence, becoming one of the first Vision Language Models of Bharat. Krutrim Translate 1, which will likely have more improvements in the time to come, provides text to text translation to its users.

Dhwani 1 has also been built on top of Krutrim 1 but it serves as Bharat’s first Speech Language Model. This means that Dhwani 1 has the capability to perform tasks like speech translation. Vyakhyarth 1 is an Indic Embedding model which users can utilize to perform functions like search and RAG.


Most importantly, Bhavish Aggarwal has announced the development of BharatBench. Ola Electric founder said in the X post that they have come up with BharatBench in the absence of a global benchmark for Indic performance.


What’s Next for Krutrim?

Ola Electric founder Bhavish Aggarwal has announced investments worth ₹2,000 crore into Krutrim. He has further committed to invest ₹10,000 crore by next year. Bhavish, in the X post, has said that they are nowhere close to global benchmarks yet but the feat that they have achieved in the last 1 year is good enough.


Bhavish is hopeful that open sourcing the model brings together the AI community of Bharat. The community, under a single umbrella, can then create a world-class Indian AI ecosystem.

The closest development to look forward to is the GB200 deployment. Ola has partnered with NVIDIA and GB200 is tentatively scheduled to go live in March this year. Bhavish has said that they will make it the largest supercomputer in Bharat by the end of this year, that is 2025.


What is Krutrim?

To put everything into context, Krutrim is a company that specializes in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop LLMs, an acronym for large language models. Krutrim also creates AI chatbots specifically for Indian markets. The company is on a mission to make AI accessible to businesses, developers, and consumers.


Interestingly, Krutrim is derived from Sanskrit and the word means ‘artificial’ or ‘created by human efforts.’ Krutrim provides AI cloud infrastructure, develops AI models, creates AI chatbots, and enables generative AI applications. The most recent milestone that Krutrim has achieved is hosting DeepSeek at the lowest price in the world, according to the official website of Ola Krutrim.

 
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