Now, there are too many AI companies present in the AI space, but recently, a new company called “Krutrim” has generated buzz on social media.
I know you are curious to know more about this new AI company, so for you, I answered all related questions regarding Krutrim AI in this single post.
In this post, you will discover what Krutrim AI is, who founded it, how it differs from other AI tools, and much more.
Let’s dive in.
1. What is Krutrim AI?
Krutrim AI is India’s own LLM model, which was developed by “Ola” (a company that provides online taxi services, makes electric scooters, and recently unraveled its fully autonomous electric scooter).
You can call it the “Indian-made Chat GPT.” It’s trained from scratch on over 2 trillion tokens and supports over 10 Indian languages.
This chatbot can communicate with users in any of the provided languages below.
- English
- Hindi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Malayalam
- Bengali
- odia
- Marathi
- kannada
- Gujarati
- And many more
One key note: This model is not available for people under 18 years old or non-Indian users.
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2. Who is the founder of Krutrim Ai?
The founder of Krutrim AI is “Bhavish Aggarwal,” a man who graduated from IIT Bombay in 2008.
He started his career at Microsoft and later founded Ola Cabs in 2010, and now he is running some of the most popular and innovative brands in India, like Ola, Ola Electric, Ola Fleet Technologies, and several subsidiary brands.
Bhavish Aggarwal has raised $50 million from venture capital firm Matrix Partners India at a $1 billion valuation, making “Krutrim AI” India’s first homegrown artificial intelligence unicorn company.
3. What I found while testing Krutrim AI
“Krutrim AI” is still in the beta/testing phase, so we cannot expect chat to get level output from this, but while I was testing this LLM( large language model), I found some interesting things.
A. Good Things:
- As I mentioned before, this LLM can understand English and Hindi, as well as 10+ state languages (Odia, Bengali, Telugu, etc.), which can be very good for India, a diverse country.
- Another thing that I liked is that this LLM has a simple and clean chat interface that can be super easy to understand.
- The speed of response in the English language is good.
B. Bad Things:
As I mentioned above, this model is in the beta phase, so it has lots of flaws, and some of them are
- As per their privacy policy, they can share your data with service providers and other partners.
- It takes a long time to understand regional languages.
- “When I tested this tool, I noticed that sometimes it doesn’t provide me with an answer. Instead, it only displays the welcome message, which reads:(‘Hello! I’m here to help you with any questions or tasks you have. Please let me know how I can assist you.'”)
- It has limited knowledge (since August 2023).
- When I asked Krutrim AI to create a table with three columns containing the names, occupations, and ages of famous people, it was unable to structure the output information properly.
But still, they need a clap because they trained this model in less than one year and the outputs are decent.
4. How is Krutrim AI different from other AI chatbots?
Although the working principles of all LLM (large language models) are the same, Krutrim AI has some differences from other big companies’ LLM models. Those are given below.
- It supports 10+ Indian states and local languages.
- It is specifically made for Indians.
- It is a relatively small model and trained in less than one year.
- “Krutrim” aims to reduce hallucinations in Indian contexts more effectively than other global platforms.
- As founder Bhavish Aggarwal says, this can provide real-time information. Although this feature is in the testing phase,.
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5. How do you use Krutrim AI?
Using Krutrim AI is very simple; you just need to follow these steps.
A. How to register in Krutrim AI
- Visit https://olakrutrim.com/.
- Click on the “Try Krutrim” button.
- Register with your mobile number or mail address.
- Now you can chat with Krutrim AI.
B. Understanding the Krutrim AI interface
- There is a text box below where you can input your text to start interacting with Krutrim AI.
- At the upper right corner, you will see a Messages button where you can open a new chat window.
- At the top-left corner, you will see a Manu bar, where you can see your previous chats and your account settings.
6. Plans for further development of Krutrim AI
Ola plans to make Krutrim AI the best in the world by launching new features like:
- Support for all 22 Indian languages.
- Voice-enabled Gen AI applications.
- Providing APIs to developers.
- Building the Krutrim cloud.
- Developing in-house silicon chips optimized for AI computing.
- Offer a foundation model for other enterprises, allowing them to build their own AI applications.
7. Conclusion: What is Krutrim AI?
Lastly, Ola’s founder, Bhavesh Aggarwal, and their team are trying to provide a seamless AI assistant to every Indian.
Although the company was founded last year, they have successfully launched a chatbot that supports over 10 Indian languages, which is an incredible feat for a new AI model.
I think you will learn something new from this article. If you do, please share it with your friends.
Have a great day.
FaQ
Q: What is the valuation of Krutrim AI?
Krutrim AI became India’s first AI unicorn after raising $50 million at a $1 billion valuation in December 2023 .
Q: Who invested in Krutrim AI?
The main investor in Krutrim AI is Matrix Partners India, which is currently heavily investing in AI fields.
Q: Is Krutrim a unicorn?
yes, Krutrim AI is an India-based unicorn company, as of march 2024 , the current valuation is $1 billion
Q: Where is the Krutrim AI team based?
Total team size of Krutrim AI is between 11 to 50, with some members based in Bangalore, Singapore, and San Francisco.
