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Economic Times
07-08-2025
- 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
07-08-2025
- 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.
