Ola is on a roll as it gives the glimpse of its next artificial intelligence (AI) advancements in the pipeline. The Krutrim AI parent on March 5 announced that it is partnering with Lenovo to develop the largest supercomputer in India and it is also working on 700-billion parameter based Krutrim 3 model.
This comes barely a month after Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced an investment of Rs 2,000 crore into his AI venture, with a commitment of Rs 10,000 crore by next year. Ola is also setting up an AI research lab. Meanwhile, it is also building its own cloud infrastructure and AI chips.
Speaking at Lenovo TechWorld India 2025 in Mumbai, Ola Group CIO Navendu Agarwal said, “We are building the largest infrastructure and again very proud to say along with Lenovo, we are building the largest supercomputer of India. That will be powered in our cloud. Then we are also building the foundational models and our own chip.”
Ola has a team of 700 employees focused on building its full-stack AI offerings, Agarwal shared.
Within its AI-first cloud, Ola is building application layers, agentic platforms, contact center AI, manufacturing AI to name a few.
“We are also building agentic platform in a way that it can be used by the startups and the ecosystem so they can build applications for the country at the right cost point and cloud will be that vehicle and on this, along with Lenovo and other companies here, we will partner to make it sabka vikas, together. That's our vision,” he added.
On to Krutrim 3
In his discussion with Matthew Zielinski, President, International Markets, Lenovo, Agarwal also shared that Ola’s Krutrim 3 large language model is also in works.
While its first model Krutrim 1, which was being developed in late 2023, was 7 billion parameter model and it trained the second model Krutrim 2 on 12 billion parameters, the upcoming model Krutrim 3 will be built on 700 billion parameters. Both Krutrim 1 and Krutrim 2 are open sourced models.
Agarwal said, “We are very proud to say that we are working on a bigger model, Krutrim 3, which will be a 700-billion parameter model, which will be an answer from India to show that we can build the best. And we are very proud to partner with Lenovo in this endeavour.”
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