Ola Krutrim introduces Android application, opens up cloud infra
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim, India’s rst AI unicorn platform, has introduced its standalone Android app and opened up its cloud platform, Krutrim Cloud, to enterprises, researchers, and developers.
With this, Ola Krutrim will compete with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services.
The cloud platform gives access to advanced AI computers and both Krutrim’s and open-source models on Krutrim Cloud. It also oers location services tools to make local map-based solutions.
Generating content
The mobile app, which has been pegged as a chat assistant, is built on the company’s own large language model(LLM) that can assist people as a writing tool to generate content such as blog posts, emails, messages, and social media posts among others.
It can also provide answers to user’s day-to-day queries, latest news and trends, and information on a wide variety of topics.
It chatbot assists users 10 Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati, besides Hinglish (a mix of Hindi and English) and English with intentions to cover all 22 ocial languages shortly.
In the pipeline, the app will incorporate voice commands and blend text, voice, and visual data. It can serve as a writing tool for crafting content such as blog posts, emails, messages, and social media posts, among other uses.
Additionally, it collaborates with various apps, allowing users to carry out actions such as cab bookings or setting reminders without toggling between apps. Over time, it learns from user engagements, oering personalised experiences through customised suggestions and reminders.
Services to developers
Krutrim has announced Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) oering developers access to its LLMs as well as opensource models being hosted on its cloud. Krutrim’s base LLMs and multiple associated instruction-tuned versions, together with the Python SDKs, will enable developers create Indiaspecic products, given its understanding of Indian languages and cultural context.
Voice, image models
The company is also planning to release models for voice, image understanding and generation, and pre-tuned LLM agents.
Krutrim Cloud will soon provide a graphics processing unit (GPU) as a service on its advanced AI computing infrastructure, enabling businesses and developers to train, ne-tune, and deploy their models.
Krutrim Cloud is providing essential location services tailored for businesses targeting local markets.
These services encompass the Places API, aiding users in pinpointing locations such as restaurants or hotels on maps with detailed information.
“We truly believe that India needs its own technology platforms to enable the emergence of worldclass products at a fraction of current costs. With Krutrim, our enterprises and developers will no longer have to be dependent on complex and cost-heavy western cloud platforms, which are not optimised for the Indian use cases,” said Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder, Ola Krutim.
Indigenous data units
The company said it is also working on AI infrastructure to develop indigenous data centres and eventually, server-computing, edge-computing and supercomputers.
Ola also plans to integrate Krutrim across its group companies this year, leveraging the technology for sales, service, support, and other key processes.
(The writer is with The Hindu businessline. With inputs from Meghna Barik)