Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal on Friday announced a “made for India” ChatGPT equivalent that he said will support 10 Indian languages. Several enterprises in India are working on similar initiatives, partly based on the government’s Bhashini Mission which is creating a database of Indian languages that can be used to train AI models.
Called Krutrim, Sanskrit for artificial, Aggarwal’s AI company will have a distinct identity from Ola’s mobility and EV business.
Agarwal says the company was incorporated in April as Krutrim SI Design with teams based in Bengaluru and San Francisco.
Krutrim will debut in January with a beta version that will be able for enterprises and developers to use to create chatbots for their specific purposes. The exhibition shows that the system can switch between languages and discuss nuances ranging from poetry in Bengali to Bollywood movies, creative masala dosa recipes.
Their systems, he said, are proprietary and trained on datasets obtained from partners.
Aggarwal did not reveal the price, but said that it is a family of models and each has a certain price-performance balance. “Apart from these language models, we also have speech models. So, you can talk to AI models,” he added.
Agarwal has ambitious plans to build their own AI chip within two years. “We already have enough GPU resources. Eventually we will build our own AI supercomputer and our silicon. We are also building our own technology for the data center; making it more efficient is very important to reduce costs,” he said.
