Bhavish Aggarwal, the CEO of Ola, has announced that Krutrim, touted as “India’s own AI,” is now available for testing. He said the first-generation product will “improve significantly” as the company works to build its base.
“As promised, we are starting the public beta rollout of @Krutrim AI today. Use it here: https://chat.olakrutrim.com,” Aggarwal said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Krutrim means “artificial” in Sanskrit. According to the company, Krutrim is “a proprietary AI model based on local Indian knowledge, languages and data.”
“This is a beginning for us and our first generation product. There is much more to come and this too will improve significantly as we build on this foundation. Give us your feedback,” he added.
Krutrim will have “hallucinations.”
The Ola co-founder also sought feedback, emphasizing that the model will “hallucinate” – a term used for AI chatbots when they generate made-up information in response to a user's request but present it as if it were they would be factual and correct.
“While there will be some hallucinations, it will be much less in the Indian context than other global platforms. And we will work overtime to find and fix the problem!” he added. Previously, the company announced that the model would be available in two sizes – a basic model and a larger, more advanced model called the Krutrim Pro, which is set to launch later this year.
Krutrim understands 20 Indian languagesAt its launch last year, the company announced that Krutrim's base model was trained on two trillion tokens, which include subwords used in conversations and datasets. The model understands 20 Indian languages and can generate texts in 10 Indian languages.
“We have Krutrim strongly rooted in Indian values and data with over 10 Indian languages and are ready to help in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati and even Hinglish!” he said in the post.
Krutrim – Desi answer to ChatGPT
Notably, the company previously announced that Krutrim offers greater Indian language support than even OpenAI's GPT-4.
“Krutrim marks the beginning of a new era in the AI computing stack for our country. Our goal is to join the world in innovating and defining future paradigms,” he added.
Aggarwal believes that AI has the potential to transform our economic and cultural lives and therefore says India should develop its own AI technology instead of relying on Western products.
“As promised, we are starting the public beta rollout of @Krutrim AI today. Use it here: https://chat.olakrutrim.com,” Aggarwal said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Krutrim means “artificial” in Sanskrit. According to the company, Krutrim is “a proprietary AI model based on local Indian knowledge, languages and data.”
“This is a beginning for us and our first generation product. There is much more to come and this too will improve significantly as we build on this foundation. Give us your feedback,” he added.
Krutrim will have “hallucinations.”
The Ola co-founder also sought feedback, emphasizing that the model will “hallucinate” – a term used for AI chatbots when they generate made-up information in response to a user's request but present it as if it were they would be factual and correct.
“While there will be some hallucinations, it will be much less in the Indian context than other global platforms. And we will work overtime to find and fix the problem!” he added. Previously, the company announced that the model would be available in two sizes – a basic model and a larger, more advanced model called the Krutrim Pro, which is set to launch later this year.
Krutrim understands 20 Indian languagesAt its launch last year, the company announced that Krutrim's base model was trained on two trillion tokens, which include subwords used in conversations and datasets. The model understands 20 Indian languages and can generate texts in 10 Indian languages.
“We have Krutrim strongly rooted in Indian values and data with over 10 Indian languages and are ready to help in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati and even Hinglish!” he said in the post.
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Krutrim – Desi answer to ChatGPT
Notably, the company previously announced that Krutrim offers greater Indian language support than even OpenAI's GPT-4.
“Krutrim marks the beginning of a new era in the AI computing stack for our country. Our goal is to join the world in innovating and defining future paradigms,” he added.
Aggarwal believes that AI has the potential to transform our economic and cultural lives and therefore says India should develop its own AI technology instead of relying on Western products.
