Ola Has Nothing to Do with Microsoft Azure Anymore

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal fulfilled his promise of moving all AI infrastructure workloads from Microsoft Azure to Krutrim AI Cloud.

“Will help others also exit and move to our own Indian stack. More than 2500 devs have signed up!! Will be working with everyone to get onto our cloud services over coming weeks,” Aggarwal said on X. 

Krutrim, which became India's first AI unicorn, launched Krutrim AI Cloud earlier this month. The service offers AI computing infrastructure and access to both its foundational models and open-source models like Mistral and Meta’s Llama 3, enabling developers to build and run LLMs cost-effectively. This move has positioned Krutrim to compete with major cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS.

However, many users pointed out that Ola’s workload is primarily on AWS rather than Azure. 

“Does he think people who deploy and run companies’ cloud or work in AI are as stupid as consumers who buy two-wheelers?” asked Kissan AI founder Pratik Desai. 

Another user on X pointed out, “Why does it sound like a pre-planned marketing campaign for launching Krutrim cloud? You can’t have these things done overnight for sure. Good way to grab attention.”

But what made Aggarwal take this drastic move, and how was it pre-planned?

Recently, Microsoft’s LinkedIn took down his post. He had called the networking platform’s use of gender-neutral pronouns like they/them “pronoun illness” and hoped it would not reach India.

According to him, “pronoun illness” is being taught by “big city schools” and is increasingly appearing in CVs—which he clearly is not a fan of. He believes India “needs to know where to draw the line in following the West blindly!”

That is why he decided to move his workload from the big tech’s cloud to its in-house cloud. This is why he decided that India needs to create its own tech ecosystem so that we do not get “governed by western Big Tech monopolies.”