Ola with its AI venture, Krutrim, plans to design and develop India’s first AI silicon chips by 2026, aiming to manage complex AI tasks and workloads, marking a significant step towards technological sovereignty for the nation.
Unveiled at Ola’s flagship event, Sankalp 2024, held at the Ola Futurefactory in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder of Ola, emphasized the transformative era of AI.
The initial family of chips includes Bodhi for AI tasks, Sarv for general computing, and Ojas for edge computing.
These chips are expected to accelerate the development of faster and more efficient AI systems, propelling India into the forefront of global AI innovation.
The company has ambitious plans, including the release of Bodhi 2 by 2028.
This chip will be trained on over 10 trillion parameters and is scalable to exascale supercomputing, a level of processing power that far exceeds today’s most advanced supercomputers.
To support this technological leap, Krutrim aims to scale its data center capacity to 1 GW by 2028.
The firm has also forged strategic partnerships with global leaders like Arm and Untether AI to develop its CPU and AI chips.
Chris Walker, CEO of Toronto-based Untether AI, expressed enthusiasm for the collaboration, stating, “We are gratified to be working in close collaboration with Ola-Krutrim’s hardware and software engineering teams to develop next-generation AI acceleration solutions utilizing the capability of our At-Memory speedAI architecture.”
In addition to its hardware developments, Krutrim has launched Krutrim Cloud, offering AI and general-purpose capabilities.
This cloud platform is designed to empower the Indian developer community, enabling more affordable technology applications.
Already, over 25,000 developers are using Krutrim Cloud, with 250 billion API calls made since its launch in early 2024.
The platform has also introduced over 50 new services, including Bhashik, a language hub with multimodal translation capabilities, and Customer Experience AI, featuring multimodal AI agents for enterprise applications.
