As it provides a sneak peek at its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) developments, Ola is on a roll. The parent company of Krutrim AI revealed that it is collaborating with Lenovo to create the biggest supercomputer in India and that it is developing a Krutrim 3 model with 700 billion parameters.

Barely a month has passed since Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal declared that he will invest Rs 2,000 crore in his AI project, with an additional Rs 10,000 crore pledged by the following year. Ola is also establishing a lab for AI research. It is also developing its own AI processors and cloud infrastructure in the interim.

Ola Group CIO Navendu Agarwal says, “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,” adds Navendu.

During his conversation with Lenovo's President of International Markets, Matthew Zielinski, Agarwal also mentioned that Ola's Krutrim 3 large language model was being developed.

The next model Krutrim 3 would be constructed on 700 billion parameters, whereas its initial model, Krutrim 1, was being produced in late 2023 and had 7 billion parameters. It trained the second model, Krutrim 2, on 12 billion parameters. The Krutrim 1 and Krutrim 2 models are both publicly available.

Navendu says, “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 endeavor.”