Bhavish Aggarwal, the CEO of Ola, has announced that
Krutrim
, touted as “India's own AI” is now available for people to test. He said that the first-generation product will “improve significantly” as the company works on building its base.
“As promised, starting the @Krutrim AI public beta roll out 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 “an
AI model
of our own, built on local
Indian knowledge
, languages, and data.”
“This is a start for us and our first generation product. Lots more to come and this will also improve significantly as we build on this base. Do give us your feedback,” he added.
Krutrim will have ‘hallucinations’
The Ola co-founder also invited feedback, highlighting that the model will “hallucinate” – a term used for AI chatbots when they generate fabricated information in response to a user's prompt but present it as if it's factual and correct.
“While some hallucinations will be there but much lower for Indian contexts than other global platforms. And we will be working overtime to find and fix!,” he added. Previously, the company said that the model will come in two sizes – a base model and a larger, more advanced one called Krutrim Pro, which is set to launch this year.
Krutrim understands 20 Indian languages
At its launch last year, the company said that the base Krutrim model has been trained on two trillion tokens, which includes subwords used in conversations and datasets. The model understands 20 Indian languages and can generate text in 10 Indian languages.
“We’ve rooted Krutrim strongly into Indian values and data with over 10+ Indian languages and ready to assist 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 larger Indic language support than even OpenAI's GPT-4.
“Krutrim marks the dawn of a new era in the AI computing stack for our nation. We will aim to innovate alongside the world and define future paradigms,” he added.
Aggarwal believes that AI has the potential to transform our economic and cultural lives, hence, he says India should create its own AI technology rather than relying on Western products.
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