Ola’s AI to surpass global players in energy-efficient data centers: founder
Bhavish Aggarwal Founder and CEO of Ola Electric and Ola Cabs
Ola’s AI platform Krutrim will compete with global tech giants in building energy-efficient data centers and offer cloud services at the lowest price for artificial intelligence development, said founder Bhvish Aggarwal.
Speaking at an event, Aggarwal announced an AI cloud platform – Krutrim Cloud – for enterprises, researchers and developers at a low cost, with a focus on meeting the needs of Indian developers.
“We’re building our own power management technology to create the most efficient data centers in the world. I’m willing to compete with Microsoft, Google or anyone else to say, we’ll do better than them. The cloud costs we pay are the same as the amount paid by US developers. How is this justified? We will fix that,” Aggarwal said.
He claimed that big tech companies like Amazon, Google and Apple have closed ecosystems and locked developers’ work on their platforms.
“Krutrim’s overall ambition is to build a full-stack AI platform, allowing developers to create applications easier, faster and cheaper,” said Aggarwal.
He also said that no startup is making profits due to the high cost of cloud services.
Ola claims that the Krutrim assistant app is built on its own large language model and trained on over 2 trillion tokens with the largest representation of Indian data.
The company claims that Krutrim currently understands and generates intelligent responses in more than 10 Indian languages, which will be expanded to 22 official languages in the near future.
Aggarwal said Krutrim is an Indian platform for developing global applications.
“We are going to create many more models that will be useful in the Indian context. We are working on voice models, vision-based models etc,” he added.
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First print: May 4, 2024 | 11:02 PM IST