Bhavish Aggarwal, the creator of Ola Cabs and Ola Electric, founded the artificial intelligence (AI) business Krutrim Si Designs, which on Monday released its first product, a chatbot helper, into beta testing.
The chatbot website, known as Krutrim helper, functions as a personal generative AI helper. At the moment, it can react in more than ten languages and accepts cues in Hindi or English.
“We draw inspiration from all open-source architectures, but we made a lot of changes to make it work well in multilingual environments. Typical architectures won’t function. This is also significantly better because of the full pre-training, which is the more complex portion, according to Ravi Jain, the head of strategy at Krutrim, who spoke with ET.
The founder and CEO Aggarwal tweeted on Monday that while the new chatbot will cause occasional hallucinations, they would be far less common in Indian situations than on other international platforms. You can access it by joining up at chat.olakrutrim.com.
In the AI contest, responses produced by AI that are erroneous or deceptive yet are presented as true are called hallucinations. Machine learning models called LLMs are able to understand and produce text written in human languages.
For us and our first-generation product, this is the beginning. There will be a lot more, and as we expand on this foundation, it will also get much better. Please share your thoughts with us, Aggarwal said.
The chatbot identified itself as Krutrim, an Ola product, when asked. I’m a computer program that creates language that resembles that of a human depending on the input I get. “To the best of my ability, I’m here to assist and provide information,” it continued.
There have recently been other Indian companies who are developing huge language models with use cases in vernacular. OpenHathi, a Hindi language model, was released by Sarvam AI in December.
The National Hub of Language Technology and conversational AI platform Corover AI collaborated to create BharatGPT, an LLM initiative in January that combines textual modality in 22 languages and voice modality in over 12 Indian languages.
According to ET’s report, which cited experts, companies in this field face significant challenges due to the associated costs and competition from global giants like Google and OpenAI. They estimate that it will take India three to five years to develop an analogous ChatGPT system.
Incorporated in April, Krutrim is based in Bengaluru. In December, it began its LLM. This product is driven by that underlying framework. We needed some time to test and sort of productize it,” Jain stated.
According to Jain, a more advanced Krutrim Pro with speech, vision, and task execution capabilities will be accessible in the next quarter.
The 150 employees of the organization are mostly senior and lateral hires with prior experience building foundational models and large-scale systems.
