Bhavish Aggarwal

When India started dreaming big about homegrown AI, Bhavish Aggarwal didn’t just listen from the sidelines. He built the tools from the ground up. The co‑founder and CEO of Ola Consumer, and founder of Ola Electric and Ola Krutrim, Aggarwal is steering India’s shift toward self-reliant and culturally attuned artificial intelligence.

Under his leadership, Krutrim has launched Kruti, India’s first multilingual agentic AI assistant, supporting over 13 Indian languages and set to expand to all 22 official languages.

At the 2024 Sankalp event in Bengaluru, he unveiled plans for India’s first homegrown AI chips—Bodhi‑1 by 2026, followed by Bodhi‑2 by 2028 and announced a roadmap to establish a 1-GW data centre by 2028.

Aggarwal’s message is bold: build AI in Bhartiya languages, rooted in local data, and make it accessible to all Indians. He’s also deployed powerful open-source models like DeepSeek‑R1 at just ₹1 per million tokens to democratise AI access. From mobility to AI infrastructure, Aggarwal is transforming Ola into a powerhouse of AI innovation, proving that India can pioneer not just in usage but in creation.