Krutrim, Ola’s AI venture, is set to create India’s first AI-specific silicon chips by 2026, designed to handle advanced AI tasks and workloads. This initiative is part of the company’s strategy to enhance its comprehensive AI capabilities, which encompass foundational models, cloud solutions, and silicon technology.
Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder of Ola, emphasized the significance of this development during Sankalp 2024 at Ola Futurefactory in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. He highlighted the transformative era of AI and the necessity for India to establish its own AI infrastructure. The initial chip lineup includes Bodhi for AI applications, Sarv for general computing, and Ojas for edge computing. These chips are expected to drive the creation of faster, more efficient AI systems and contribute to India’s technological independence.
Krutrim plans to introduce Bodhi 2 by 2028, which will be capable of handling over 10 trillion parameters and be scalable to exascale supercomputing levels. Exascale systems are characterized by their ability to process information at speeds far beyond those of current leading supercomputers.
To support these developments, Krutrim aims to expand its data center capacity to 1 GW by 2028 and has formed partnerships with global industry leaders such as Arm and Untether AI for CPU and AI chip development.
Chris Walker, CEO of Untether AI, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, highlighting the potential of their At-Memory speedAI architecture to enhance AI inference performance and energy efficiency.
Additionally, Krutrim has launched Krutrim Cloud, offering AI and general-purpose services to support the Indian developer community in creating technology applications more cost-effectively.
Krutrim AI will be integrated into Ola Electric and Ola Cabs to enhance the user experience. As of early 2024, over 25,000 developers are utilizing Krutrim Cloud, which has processed 250 billion API calls. The company has also introduced more than 50 new services on Krutrim Cloud, including Bhashik, a language hub with multimodal translation capabilities, and Customer Experience AI, featuring multimodal AI agents for enterprise mobile apps.
