Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI Unicorn Krutrim Launches Its Chatbot

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal-led AI unicorn Krutrim has launched its chatbot, which is currently in beta mode.

“As promised, starting the @Krutrim AI public beta roll out today,” said Aggarwal in a post on X on Monday (February 26). “This is a start for us and our first generation product.”

Aggarwal further wrote, “Lots more to come and this will also improve significantly as we build on this base.” He also asked users to provide feedback.

“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 wrote.

Krutrim unveiled its AI models in December last year. At the time, the startup also showcased the AI chatbot, which functions in a similar manner  as other open source large language models (LLM) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama 2. 

Speaking on building Krutrim on Indian data, Aggarwal earlier said, “Today, all AI models, called LLM, are trained largely in English. But language is just not text but also the vehicle for cultural values, context, and ethos. Hence, the current AI models just can’t capture India’s culture, knowledge, and aspirations, given our multicultural, multilingual context. An India-first AI… needs to be trained on datasets specific to us.

Krutrim’s AI models can understand over 20 Indian languages and generate text in 10 Indian languages, including Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, and Marathi. A higher and more sophisticated version, Krutrim Pro is anticipated to be available in Q4 FY24.

“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,” said Aggarwal in his post on X today.

It is also pertinent to note that Krutrim is working on building AI infrastructure – developing indigenous data centres and aims to eventually get into server-computing, edge-computing, and super-computers. The startup is also working on manufacturing AI-optimised silicon chips.

Last month, Krutrim became Aggarwal’s third and India’s first GenAI unicorn after raising a funding of $50 Mn in a round led by a clutch of investors, including Matrix Partners India.