Ola Launches Krutrim AI Lab, Unveils New AI Models, Announces Rs 10,000 Crore Investment

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal commits Rs 10,000 crore to India's AI ecosystem, launches Krutrim AI Lab, multiple AI models, and India's largest supercomputer by the end of 2025.

Highlights

  • Rs 2,000 Crore Investment: Initial funding for AI research, with a Rs 10,000 crore commitment next year.
  • Krutrim AI Lab Launched: A dedicated AI research center to advance India's AI capabilities.
  • Nvidia GB200-based AI infrastructure to go live by March 2025.

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Ola Launches Krutrim AI Lab, Unveils New AI Models, Announces Rs 10,000 Crore Investment
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced on Tuesday, February 4, an investment of Rs 2,000 crore in his artificial intelligence (AI) venture, Krutrim, with a commitment of Rs 10,000 crore by next year. He also announced the launch of Krutrim AI Lab, a frontier AI research lab, along with multiple AI models and the investment aimed at boosting India's AI ecosystem.

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"While 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," Aggarwal said in a post on the X platform.

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal announcing Krutrim AI lab

AI Infrastructure Boost with Nvidia

He also announced the deployment of India's first GB200 in partnership with Nvidia, which is expected to go live by March 2025. "We will make it the largest supercomputer in India by end of year," he said.

This announcement comes just days after Aggarwal revealed that Krutrim has deployed DeepSeek AI models on Indian services.

"India can't be left behind in AI. Krutrim has accelerated efforts to develop world class AI. As first step, our cloud now has DeepSeek models live, hosted on Indian servers. Pricing lowest in the world," Aggarwal said in a post on the X on January 31, 2025.

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Krutrim's Open-Source Push

The company has open-sourced its AI models and research to accelerate collaboration within India's AI community. According to the post, these resources are available on GitHub and Hugging Face.

New AI Models Announced

Aggarwal also announced the release of multiple AI models:

  • Krutrim 2 LLM – The company's newly announced large language model, improving upon Krutrim 1, India's first LLM, launched in January 2024.
  • Chitrarth 1 – India's first Vision Language Model for image and document understanding, built on top of Krutrim 1.
  • Dhwani 1 – A Speech Language Model capable of speech translation. Ola claims this model is India's first speech-language model built on top of Krutrim 1.
  • Vyakhyarth 1 – A state-of-the-art Indic Embedding model for search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • Krutrim Translate 1 – A state-of-the-art text-to-text translation model, according to Aggarwal.

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Benchmark

Additionally, Aggarwal introduced BharatBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI performance on Indic languages.

"In addition, since there was no global benchmark for Indic performance, we've developed 'BharatBench'," he said, sharing the technical report.

"We're nowhere close to global benchmarks yet but have made good progress in 1 year. And by open sourcing our models, we hope the entire Indian AI community collaborates to create a world-class Indian AI ecosystem. We're still learning to walk before we can run, hopefully within this year!" Aggarwal added.

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Kirpa B is passionate about the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence technologies and has a keen interest in telecom. In her free time, she enjoys gardening or diving into insightful articles on AI.

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