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News18
6 days ago
- Business
- News18
Krutrim integrates Clouderas data platform to enhance AI cloud offerings
New Delhi, Aug 7 (PTI) Krutrim, the AI and cloud arm of Ola Group, on Thursday announced the integration of Cloudera's data platform into its Krutrim Cloud, enabling large-scale analytics and advanced data lake capabilities with cost-efficiency, security, and industry readiness. The combined stack is already being utilised by its parent entity, the Ola Group, for real-time data processing and AI workloads. 'The Ola Group is already leveraging this combined stack for its real-time data processing and AI workloads, benefiting from the security, performance, and data sovereignty provided by Krutrim Cloud along with Cloudera's proven architecture," the company said in a statement. The Cloudera-based solution will soon be made commercially available to other enterprise customers on the Krutrim platform. This integration is aimed at strengthening Krutrim's vertically integrated, AI-first cloud infrastructure, which spans compute, storage, data management, and AI capabilities. The move enhances Krutrim's ability to support advanced data engineering, AI training, and inference at scale with secure and industry-tested components. 'We are focused on building India's cloud with deeply integrated capabilities across infrastructure, data, and AI. The availability of Cloudera on Krutrim enhances our enterprise stack and enables advanced data lake use-cases with confidence and scale, packaged in cost-effective solutions," Navendu Agarwal, Senior Vice President and Head of Business, Krutrim, said. PTI ANK MR view comments First Published: August 07, 2025, 15:15 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Economic Times
6 days ago
- Business
- Economic Times
Ola's AI venture Krutrim partners with data lake software company Cloudera
ETtech Ola's artificial intelligence venture Krutrim has partnered with data and AI platform company Cloudera to support large-scale analytics and data lake operations for the ride hailing company on Krutrim Cloud. A data lake is a central repository that stores vast amounts of raw data. The move is intended to help Krutrim leverage data and AI to enhance operations, improve user experience, and support development of large-scale data engineering and AI model development, AI training and inference. 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 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, 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 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 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) Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea. As RBI retains GDP forecast, 4 factors that will test the strength of Indian economy India's last cement IPO did not work. Can JSW Cement break that curse? Is Shadowfax closing in on its closest rival? Can Coforge's ambition to lead the IT Industry become a reality? Berlin to Bharuch: The Borosil journey after the China hit in Europe Stock Radar: Syngene International showing signs of momentum after falling 26% from highs; what should investors do? Two Trades for Today: A life insurance major for a 4.85% upmove, a mid-cap diesel engine maker for almost 7% rise Multibagger or IBC - Part 18: This auto ancillary started with wheels. It now also powers wind & war Auto stocks: Yes, headwinds in the short term, but will structural change become tailwinds and prove analysts wrong?
Barnama
6 days ago
- Business
- Barnama
Cloudera, Krutrim To Deliver Scalable AI Data Solutions On India's Sovereign Cloud
BUSINESS KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 (Bernama) -- Cloudera, a global data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform provider, has announced a strategic collaboration with Krutrim, India's sovereign cloud platform, to support large-scale analytics and data lake workloads for Ola on the Krutrim Cloud. In a statement, Cloudera said the solution, currently powering mission-critical workloads for Ola, will soon be made available to other enterprise customers on the Krutrim platform. The partnership aims to accelerate enterprise AI adoption in India by providing scalable infrastructure and trusted data platforms tailored to local market needs. 'Krutrim's vision to create a robust AI infrastructure for India aligns perfectly with Cloudera's mission to enable trusted enterprise AI through data,' said Cloudera Regional Vice President for India and South Asia, Mayank Baid. He added that Cloudera is working closely with Ola's teams to enhance data quality, governance, and natural language access, with plans to co-develop solution frameworks that will benefit wider enterprise use. Meanwhile, Krutrim's Senior Vice President and Head of Business, Navendu Agarwal, said the partnership would empower Indian enterprises with high-performance and cost-effective solutions, enabling secure and scalable data lake capabilities. 'We are focused on building India's cloud with deeply integrated capabilities across infrastructure, data, and AI to better serve the unique needs of the Indian market,' he said. Krutrim is developing a vertically integrated cloud platform covering compute, storage, data management, and AI applications, tailored to India's linguistic and cultural diversity. Its AI computing stack includes foundational models for text, voice, and video, enabling a broad spectrum of intelligent applications to be developed on a sovereign infrastructure. By leveraging Cloudera's data platform and consulting services, Krutrim has enabled real-time data processing from multiple sources, enhancing analytics and decision-making capabilities for Ola.
Barnama
6 days ago
- Business
- Barnama
Krutrim Partners With Cloudera To Power Ai-driven Innovation In India
SINGAPORE, Aug 7 (Bernama) -- [EVOLVE25] - Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today announced that Krutrim, India's own sovereign cloud platform, is working with Cloudera to power large-scale analytics and data lake workloads for Ola on Krutrim Cloud. The Cloudera-based solution will soon be available to other enterprise customers on Krutrim. This strategic partnership will enable Krutrim to harness the full potential of data and AI to drive business transformation, improve customer experience, and support the development of advanced data engineering, AI Training and inference at scale.
Time of India
03-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Krutrim , the artificial intelligence (AI) arm of the Ola group , has received tepid response for its large language models (LLMs) and cloud products, according to some founders and developers who have evaluated these offerings. This is in large part due to the poor documentation of Krutrim's products, as well as a lack of adequate technical maturity, they said, with startups preferring hypescalers such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services over Krutrim's cloud service. Bengaluru-based Krutrim became India's first AI startup to reach unicorn status after it secured $50 million in funding in 2024 at a $1 billion valuation. The people cited earlier also said that the leadership churn at Krutrim since 2024, which saw the exit of more than 20 people, including key executives and those at the junior and mid-management levels, has not helped either. Two early-stage founders told ET that they had signed up for Krutrim Cloud but have now moved to hyperscalers Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. Mehul Mohan, chief executive officer of Codedamn, an AI tutoring platform, in a YouTube video aired on February 1, said that while Krutrim offers several models on its cloud, there is not enough documentation available and lacks transparency compared with global players such as Amazon, for similar pricing. In response to ET's query about lack of takers for its products, Krutrim's spokesperson issued a statement saying they are building the AI stack for India, including frontier AI model development, AI Cloud and silicon design, which require continuous innovation and investment in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. 'We highly value user feedback and regularly benchmark our performance against industry standards,' the statement said. 'All Krutrim offerings are under active development and will see significant enhancements in the coming quarters.' Lack of technical maturity Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent 'logged out of session' error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult. Similar issues were found with Krutrim cloud, where messages such as 'invalid credentials' and 'invalid captcha' create problems for signing up, the founders said, adding that login issues persist with Krutrim's products. ET has independently verified the issues. Rajiv Ranjan, lead analyst, India cloud and data center services, International Data Corporation (IDC), said one of the challenges a new player like Krutrim cloud might face is that enterprises already have existing contracts with hyperscalers. So, moving to a new platform can be risky due to lack of familiarity, potential integration challenges with existing cloud platforms, and the need to train internal staff with a new set of tools. Newer firms like Krutrim will have to offer higher performance, and cost-effective products to attract customers to try the new platform for specific use cases, Ranjan said. High latency Krutrim's AI model, marked by high latency, which refers to response time, has trouble attracting users as well. A former Krutrim employee ET spoke with said, "Less than 10,000 people use their chat version, and more than 60% of it are random testers.' While chat and web search are fast, Shashank Agarwal, founder, Noveum, said the app failed on other accounts such as academic, audio and image search. ET reviewed and found that Krutrim's AI chatbot took 41 seconds to generate a response for a prompt. In contrast, ChatGPT-4o and DeepSeek took less than 10 seconds. The number of downloads for Krutrim's two AI models--Krutrim 1 and Krutrim 2--have not seen much traction. According to data from HuggingFace, in the past month, the former has seen 76 downloads and the latter, 1,445. In contrast, India-based rival Sarvam's 2B parameter model has seen 3,405 downloads. However, both the Indian platforms lag global models such as Mistral (7B model) and DeepSeek-R1, which have been downloaded 1 million and 680,000 times, respectively, in the past month. Naresh Singh, senior director, analyst, at Gartner did not directly respond to a query on Krutrim's performance, but said the initial performance of the Indian AI models does not stand up in comparison to global models. 'They should be open to scrutiny and give their models up for people to study. But that has not happened yet,' Singh said. With inputs from Suraksha P.
