Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced a Rs 2,000 crore investment in his AI company, Krutrim, with plans to increase this commitment to Rs 10,000 crore by next year. Additionally, the founder of Ola Electric and Ola Mobility introduced the KrutrimAI lab and revealed that the company would make its research available to the open-source community, sharing multiple technical reports.
In an X post, Aggarwal said: “We’ve been working on AI for a year, today we’re releasing our work to the open-source community and also publishing a bunch of technical reports. Our focus is on developing AI for India to make AI better on Indian languages, data scarcity, cultural context, etc.”
He also highlighted that India’s first GB200 system, developed in partnership with Nvidia, has been deployed and is set to go live by March. “Our goal is to make it the largest supercomputer in India by the end of the year,” he further stated.
Krutrim has made several models available to the open-source community, including Krutrim 2 and the Krutrim 1 large language models (LLMs). "Krutrim 1, India’s first LLM, was introduced in January 2024 as a basic 7B model. Today, we are launching Krutrim 2, a significantly upgraded version," Aggarwal explained. The company also unveiled Chitrarth 1, a vision-language model built on Krutrim 1, designed to analyze images and documents. In addition, they introduced Dhwani 1, a speech-language model based on Krutrim 1, capable of tasks like speech translation. Furthermore, Krutrim rolled out Vyakhyarth 1, an Indic embedding model intended for use cases such as search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
