Bhavish Aggarwal At Ola Event Reveals Krutrim AI Will Launch First AI Chip By 2026

At the Ola’s annual event, CEO and founder Bhavish Aggarwal revealed future plans for Ola, the third unicorn in the Ola Group, Krutrim. He revealed ambitions to create India’s first indigenous family of chips for Edge, general computation, and artificial intelligence.

The chips in the family are Ojas for Edge, Sarv for General Compute, and Bodhi for AI. By 2026, the firm hopes to release its first chip. In addition, Bodhi 2 will debut by 2028.

For the purpose of developing CPU and AI chips, platforms, and systems, Krutrim claims that it has established strategic alliances with Arm and Untether AI.

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Additionally, Aggarwal stated that Krutrim plans to increase its data center capacity from 20 MW to 1 GW by 2028.

The startup stated in a statement, “Krutrim will be able to offer world-class AI services to India and the world thanks to the data center, which will be a computing and data storage powerhouse.”

“India has a unique chance to become a worldwide superpower in technologies of the future, including AI, in the face of fast shifting technological paradigms. India is well-positioned to spearhead the AI revolution,  since it provides 20% of the world’s data and has one of the biggest skill pools for computer professionals.” mentioned Aggarwal.

Krutrim said that Krutrim Cloud will extend its offerings to include infrastructure domains, developer platforms, data platforms, AI models, AI platforms, and AI applications in order to meet the increasing need for AI, traditional, and cloud-native application workloads.

Ola Electric and Ola Consumer (formerly known as Ola Cabs) can currently access the cloud. The company is using the cloud to power a language hub with multimodal translation capabilities, an AI service center to handle customer service (the Ola group’s customer service has been replaced by this facility), and Maps APIs & SDKs to provide businesses with intelligent search.

Ola switched from Azure to Krutrim back in May, following Aggarwal’s conflict with Microsoft over statements on LinkedIn that he claimed to be about “pronoun illness.” Back then, he had also extended invitations to other businesses to transfer from Azure to its Indian stack.

Speaking to the media on the sidelines of today’s event, Aggarwal predicted that many Indian enterprises would switch to an Indian cloud operator due to the incentive of freeing up the transition for a set period of time.

Going forward, virtual machines (VMs), cloud storage, cutting-edge security measures for data protection, and observability features for accurate data monitoring are just a few of the approximately 50 new services that Krutrim Cloud will provide.

According to Krutrim, there are numerous AI services available in the cloud that are specifically designed to lower the cost of technological goods for Indian developers. Since Krutrim Cloud’s introduction, the firm claims that over 25K developers have used it actively and that 250 billion API calls have been made across all of its products.

The AI unicorn offered free cloud services worth INR 100 Cr to developers until Diwali 2025 in an effort to attract additional developers. For a year, developers working on the ONDC platform will also be able to access it for free.

In addition, the business, in collaboration with investors Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners India), DeVC, and South Park Commons, established “Krutrim for Startups” – an Udaan program with INR 50 lakh for the first cohort of startups.

These changes have been the focus of the startup’s recent efforts. Ola Electric’s chief of strategy, Ravi Jain, said back in December 2023 that the business is aggressively creating and developing in-house technology, such as chip designs and a submersion cooling system for cloud infrastructure.