Ola's AI venture Krutrim partners with data lake software company Cloudera
The solution will later also be offered to other enterprise clients through Krutrim. "We are focused on building India's cloud with deep integrated capabilities across infrastructure, data, and AI to better serve the unique needs of the Indian market,' said Navendu Agarwal, senior vice president and head of business, Krutrim. The partnership was announced at the Cloudera Evolve25 event held in Singapore.Agarwal said the solution will provide users with the scalability and performance needed to expand data lake use cases and develop cost-effective solutions.'With Ola Group already running mission-critical workloads on this stack, and working with our professional services team on data quality, governance and natural language access, we're excited about co-developing and implementing the solution framework that brings to the broader enterprise adoption in India,' said Mayank Baid, regional vice president, India & South Asia, Cloudera.Cloudera helps businesses use AI to manage and analyze all types of data, enhancing security, governance, and enabling real-time and predictive insights.
This development comes amid a lukewarm response to Krutrim's large language models (LLMs) and cloud offerings. The limited uptake is largely attributed to inadequate product documentation and a lack of technical maturity, leading many startups to prefer hyperscalers such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, ET had reported earlier. Krutrim had addressed these concerns in a statement, saying that all its offerings are under active development and will see significant enhancements in the coming quarters.The company launched its first model, Krutrim 1, a 7-billion-parameter model, in late 2023, followed by the 12-billion-parameter Krutrim 2, both of which were open-sourced.The company is currently in the process of building Krutrim 3, which will be a 700-billion-parameter model. It partnered with Lenovo in March to develop the model.
Krutrim raised $50 million from Z47 Partners to become a unicorn in 2024. Early this year, Krutrim's founder, Bhavish Agarwal, announced an investment of Rs 2,000 crore in Krutrim AI labs as part of a total investment of Rs 10,000 crore by next year.
(The reporter was in Singapore at the invite of Cloudera)
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