Updated 15:20 IST, February 4th 2025
Ola Founder Bhavish Aggarwal Announces Launch Of Krutrim AI, Partnership With NVIDIA
"Our focus is on developing AI for India - to make AI better on Indian languages, data scarcity, cultural context etc." , wrote Agarwal.

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal said that they are launching Krutrim AI Lab today, February 4, 2025. It is an open source software, with a focus on developing AI for India.
Bhavish Agarwal Announces Krutrim AI
Taking to X, the Ola founder wrote, " "Announcing the @Krutrim AI lab today! https://ai-labs.olakrutrim.com."
He also wrote, "While we’ve been working on AI for a year, today we’re releasing our work to the open source community and also publishing a bunch of technical reports.
Our focus is on developing AI for India - to make AI better on Indian languages, data scarcity, cultural context etc."
Ola and NVIDIA to deploy India's 1st GB200
In the same Tweet Agarwal said they are announcing “India’s first GB200 deployment in partnership with NVIDIA! Will be live by March and we will make it the largest supercomputer in India by end of year.”
"India Can't Be Left Behind" : Agarwal's Post On Krutrim
Agarwal had earlier posted on X announcing the AI software will be launched on February 4.
What is Krutrim AI?
As per its website, Krutrim AI Labs is India's first frontier AI research lab, dedicated to advancing AI on Indian infrastructure. We harness the country's vast digital population and exceptional AI talent.
Here’s a list of models they are releasing:
- Krutrim 2 and Krutrim 1 LLMs: While Krutrim 1 (India’s first LLM) was launched in Jan 24. They are launching Krutrim 2 today as a much improved model. More here: https://tech.olakrutrim.com/krutrim-2-a-best-in-class-large-language-model-for-indic-languages/
- Chitrarth 1: India’s first Vision Language Model built on top of Krutrim 1 capable of understanding images and documents. More here: https://ai-labs.olakrutrim.com/models/Chitrarth-1
- Dhwani 1: India’s first Speech Language Model built on top of Krutrim 1 capable of tasks like Speech translations. More here: https://ai-labs.olakrutrim.com/models/Dhwani-1
- Vyakhyarth 1: State of the art Indic Embedding model for use cases like Search and RAG. More here: https://ai-labs.olakrutrim.com/models/Vyakyarth-1-Indic-Embedding
- Krutrim Translate 1: State of the art text to text translation. More here: https://ai-labs.olakrutrim.com/models/Krutrim-Translate
They have also developed “BharatBench” and the technical report is here: https://tech.olakrutrim.com/bharat-bench/
Published 15:09 IST, February 4th 2025