Ola’s Krutrim Rolls Out Public Beta Access

Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim has launched its first generative AI chatbot in a public beta.  “We’ve rooted Krutrim strongly into Indian values and data with over 10 Indian languages and ready to assist in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati and even Hinglish,” said Aggarwal’s post on X.

Check it out here. 

Launched in December, Krutrim is touted as “India's first full-stack AI solution”. The company earlier claimed that the model is trained on a vast dataset of two trillion tokens. However, no information about the research, including training methods, the nature of the dataset, and the number of GPUs needed, among others, has been made public.

While acknowledging the possibility of some hallucinations, Aggarwal assures users that the occurrence will be lower in Indian contexts compared to other global platforms. The team acknowledges that this is just the beginning and anticipates significant improvements as they continue building on this foundation and encourage users to provide valuable feedback.

“Krutrim marks the dawn of a new era in the AI computing stack for our nation. We will aim to innovate alongside the world and define future paradigms,” he added.

The news of Krutim’s public launch coincided with the time when Google’s Gemini came under fire for spitting out controversial content on Indian PM Narendra Modi. The big tech is also facing criticism for "inaccuracies" in historical depictions generated by Gemini, making the company halt the image generation feature. 

Krutrim became unicorn company within one month of launch by raising a significant $50 million in equity at a valuation of $1 billion. Key investors, such as Matrix Partners India, played a pivotal role in this funding round.