Ola Krutrim Launches its First Large Language Model for Free on the Databricks Marketplace

Ola Krutrim, India’s first AI unicorn, recently launched its LLM, Krutrim-7B-chat. This new model is trained in 10 Indian languages and is available on Databricks Marketplace. It can generate text in Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, and Kannada. 

This is the first of several India-specific models trained by Ola Krutrim. It has been trained on a massive dataset of Indic languages— “Krutrim delivers text infused with Indian sensibilities and cultural awareness.”  

Check out the model here. 

The announcement came to light at the Data Intelligence Day in Mumbai on May 10, 2024, by Gautam Bhargava, VP & Head of AI Engineering at Krutrim.

"We're excited to be at the forefront of building foundational LLMs trained on Indian languages to better serve our customers in India. We have been working very closely with the Databricks team to pre-train and finetune our foundational LLM,” said Bhargava. 

He added, “We are confident that Krutrim, our base model, will be able to provide high-quality responses in Indian languages and dialects.” 

According to Bhargava, Krutrim was trained using Databricks Mosaic AI Training's GPU orchestration and system optimisations, enabling state-of-the-art generative AI solutions for customers globally. The model is now available on the Databricks Marketplace.

"We're thrilled to be partnering with Databricks to bring this innovative technology to the market," said Ravi Jain, Vice President, Krutrim. "Our goal is to provide high-quality language processing capabilities to our customers in India and globally."

Earlier in an exclusive interview with AIM, Naveen Rao, VP of generative AI at Databricks, said that Krutrim is building its own LLM using the Databricks platform, custom-trained on their own mixed Indian language dataset. 

Recently, Ola Krutrim launched its own mobile app for Android and an AI cloud service offering infrastructure and foundational models for enterprises. 

A few days ago, Ola announced that it would move its entire workload from Microsoft Azure to Ola Krutrim Cloud after LinkedIn deleted Bhavish Aggarwal’s post where he pointed out that the platform’s AI chatbot used wrong pronouns for him, which Aggarwal referred to as ‘Pronoun Illness,’ and took it way too personally. 

“Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this,” said Aggarwal. 

Zoho’s Shridhar Vembu also joined Aggarwal’s rant on Linkedin and Microsoft’s ‘Wokeness’ and said India must resist the West’s woke imperialism.