Ola’s artificial intelligence (AI) venture, Krutrim, has joined forces with Lenovo to build Krutrim 3, a large language model (LLM) with 700 billion parameters. The initiative includes building India’s largest AI-first supercomputer to support AI development and hyperscale cloud infrastructure.
Ola’s AI venture, Krutrim, has partnered with Lenovo to develop Krutrim 3, a 700-billion-parameter large language model (LLM), while also building India’s largest supercomputer to support its AI initiatives. This announcement comes barely a month after Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s commitment of Rs 2,000 crore to Krutrim, with plans to scale the investment to Rs 10,000 crore by next year.
Krutrim 3 is a significant upgrade from its predecessors—Krutrim 1 (7 billion parameters) and Krutrim 2 (12 billion parameters). It aims to position India as a key player in the global AI landscape.
To strengthen its AI capabilities, Ola is establishing a research lab, developing cloud infrastructure, and designing AI chips. A 700-member team is leading its AI efforts, working on AI-first cloud solutions, agentic platforms, contact center AI, and manufacturing AI technologies.
At Lenovo TechWorld India 2025 in Mumbai, Ola Group CIO Navendu Agarwal said, “We are building the largest infrastructure and along with Lenovo, we are building the largest supercomputer of India that will be powered in our cloud.”
He added, “We are building an agentic platform that can be used by startups and the ecosystem to build applications for the country at the right cost point.”
Since its inception, Krutrim has launched two open-source AI models, demonstrating its commitment to democratizing AI. Ola has also stressed the importance of India developing its own hyperscale AI infrastructure and sovereign cloud to reduce dependence on external technologies.
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