Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal unveils Krutrim, "India own AI"

Technology News - Krutrim Si Designs, the artificial intelligence (AI) initiative spearheaded by Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, unveiled "Krutrim" on Friday, positioning it as Indiaproprietary AI model. The term "Krutrim" derives from Sanskrit, signifying "artificial."

This groundbreaking project was introduced at a launch event in Bangalore, the shared headquarters of Ola and Krutrim Si Designs. The project team operates out of India and the Bay Area in the United States.

Established in April 2023, Krutrim Si Designs is a collaboration between Aggarwal and Krishnamurthy Venugopala Tenneti, a board member at ANI Technologies Limited, the parent company of Ola Cabs and Ola Electric.

What is "Krutrim"?

Named after the Sanskrit word for "artificial," Krutrim is a substantial language model (LLM) trained on over 2 trillion "tokens," representing sub-words used in conversations. It is set to be released in two classifications, with the base Krutrim model launching next month and the more potent Krutrim Pro slated for an early release next year, featuring advanced capabilities for problem-solving and task execution.

Interested users can register their interest in Krutrim using their mobile numbers and will be notified when the technology becomes available to them.

Key Features of Krutrim:

1. The model comprehends 20 Indian languages and can generate content in ten of them.
2. It supports languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odiya, and Telugu.
3. The project team asserts that Krutrim surpasses even GPT-4 in its support for Indic languages.
4. Krutrim employs a custom tokenizer for interpreting various languages and scripts.
5. In comparisons with other open-source LLMs trained with similar data volumes, Krutrim outperforms them across a range of industry-standard benchmarks, according to the company claims.