SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim | TechCrunch
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Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into Krutrim, an AI startup he founded, to position India in the competitive AI landscape dominated by U.S. and Chinese firms. Krutrim plans to raise $1.15 billion by next year, leveraging Aggarwal's funding through his family office. The startup is developing India's largest supercomputer in partnership with Nvidia and has introduced Krutrim-2, a 12-billion parameter language model excelling in Indian language processing. Aggarwal envisions collaboration across the Indian AI community for a robust ecosystem.
Aggarwal said, 'By open sourcing our models, we hope the entire Indian AI community collaborates to create a world-class Indian AI ecosystem.'
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