Ola’s cofounder and CEO Bhawish Agrawal launched Krutrim, an LLM and generative AI platform on the lines of ChatGPT and Bard. It is an indigenous model. It has 2 trillion tokens or pieces of textual information, which represent Indian data.

Krutrim is derived from Sankrit, and means artitificial. There are two models — a base model and a Pro model. The current model answers queries and prompts from people. It can understand 22 Indian languages and can generate text in 10 Indian languages including Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia. Krutrim pro will be launched in the first quarter of 2024.

After sign up, Krutrim will be available in batches, and it will be open for all users hopefully by January, 2024.

Developers will access Krutrim APIs.

India being a multi-cultural and multi-lingual country, the currently available LLM models are not able to capture the unique nature of India. Krutrim is India’s own AI.

Krutrim’s training is on India specific data sets. Krutrim is also working on creating AI cloud infrastructure. It wants to work on AI compute by developing GPU chips. Krutrim’s architecture has multiple chipsets to power different AI infrastructure, models and applications. Krutrim is already being used by Ola group of companies. Krutrim is faster on Indian languages, and generates responses in less time, using less compute. In English, it outperforms Llama2 of Facebook. Krutrim’s design was launched in 2023.

Indian startup Sarvam has also launched OpenHathi, the first Hindi LLM. Krutrim’s launch comes on the heels of it.