Krutrim AI Lab Officially Announced in India: Many New AI Models Introduced; India’s First GB200 Deployment; and INR 2,000 Crore Investment
Bhavish Aggarwal who is known widely as the founder and CEO of OLA today on the 4th of February 2025 announced Krutrim AI Lab as India’s frontier AI research lab. Along with this exciting announcement, many new AI models have been introduced, the deployment of the country’s first GB200 super computer have been shared, along with a confirmation of INR 2,000 crore investment on Krutrim.
Read more about the latest news below.
Bhavish Aggarwal Announces Krutrim AI Lab
Via his official X handle, Bhavish Aggarwal has made an announcement that many Indians might have been wanting to hear for a very long time amidst the growing developments and improvements that we have been witness to in the AI tech sphere. While the OLA group have been serious with works regarding AI advancements for the past year, today the Krutrim AI Lab have been officially announced, also releasing its works to the open source community, together with certain technical reports too.
As per what has been revealed, the brand envisions developing AI for India, and this includes making AI better on Indian languages, addressing the issues of data scarcity, and providing more results based on cultural contexts, and more. Aligning with this vision, many new AI models have also been introduced as mentioned.
Following the country’s first large language model (LLM) – ‘Krutrim 1’ which came out in January 2024 as a basic 7B model, its much improved version – ‘Krutrim 2 ‘has been launched now. Moreover, ‘Chitrarth 1’, ‘Dhwani 1’, ‘Vyakhyarth 1’, and ‘Krutrim Translate 1’ AI models have also been brought out today. The ‘Chitrarth 1’ is pointed out as India’s first vision language model based on ‘Krutrim 1’, and is capable of understanding images and documents. ‘Dhwani 1’ is also built on top of ‘Krutrim 1’, and is India’s first speech language model with speech translation capabilities. ‘Vyakhyarth’ is considered to be an Indic embedding model that can be used for Search and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). ‘Krutrim Translate 1’ on the other hand is a text to text translation AI model with state of the art technologies. Additionally, the brand also unveiled ‘BharatBench’ as a global benchmark to measure Indic performance.
Apart from the announcement of Krutrim AI Lab and introduction of the above mentioned AI models, there are two more exciting news. The official announcement regarding the country’s first GB200 deployment has been shared, in partnership with NVIDIA. It is said to be live by March 2025 next month, and plans of making it the largest super computer of India by the end of this year are underway. Furthermore, an INR 2,000 crore investment on Krutrim has been officially announced, along with a commitment of investing INR 10,000 crore by next year in 2026.
Even while the brand is aware that with respect to benchmark performance it is nowhere near its global competitors, significant progress have been taken place in a year’s time and since the open sourcing of the brand’s AI models have begun, hopes are high that the Indian consumers would collaborate in making the country a world class AI ecosystem.
