'Willing to compete with Microsoft, Google': Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal after launch of Krutrim Cloud

Bhavish Aggarwal said. 'We are building our own technology to do energy management to make the most efficient data centres in the world.'

After the launch of its cloud platform Krutrim Cloud on May 4, Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal has said that the company will compete with tech giants such as Google and Microsoft and even beat them by offering the most affordable cloud services for AI (artificial intelligence) development and building energy-efficient data centres.

Aggarwal said that by doing so, Krutim Cloud would help developers in India who are currently paying high cloud service costs, the Times of India reported.

"We are building our own technology to do energy management to make the most efficient data centres in the world. I am willing to compete with Microsoft, Google or whoever to say, we will do better than them," he said. "The cloud cost we pay is the same as the amount paid by American developers. How is it justified? We will resolve that."

Krutrim, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup launched by Bhavish Aggarwal, has recently also launched a standalone Android app for its eponymous AI chatbot that intends to take on rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot.

The company launched its AI chatbot in public beta in February, after announcing it in December. It is Krutrim's first product that will be powered by its multilingual large language models (LLM), also called Krutrim.

The chatbot assists consumers in over 10 Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, besides Hinglish (a mix of Hindi and English) and English with support for all 22 languages expected later in 2024.

The startup, first unveiled in December 2023, became the country's first AI unicorn earlier this year after disclosing a $50 million financing at a $1 billion valuation.