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Krutrim To Launch High-Quality Translation APIs For Indian Languages Soon

Inc42 · 1y ago

Krutrim To Launch High-Quality Translation APIs For Indian Languages Soon

Krutrim AI, a company founded by Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal, is set to introduce translation APIs for Indian languages on its cloud platform, covering text, speech, and video. The company has launched an Android app and partnered with Databricks to improve its language model capabilities. With a recent funding round of $50 million, Krutrim AI has become India's first AI unicorn and aims to establish data centers and AI-optimized chips to remain competitive in the Indian AI market.

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Bhavish Aggarwal launches Krutrim AI Labs with Rs 2,000 Cr investment Ola’s founder and chief, Bhavish Aggarwal, has announced the launch of the Krutrim AI Labs to develop artificial intelligence specifically designed for India. As part of this initiative, he has committed an initial investment of Rs 2,000 crore, with a larger commitment of Rs 10,000 crore by next year. The funding will be used to establish the AI lab and develop advanced AI models tailored for Indian users. According to Aggarwal, Krutrim AI Lab will address challenges related to Indic languages, data scarcity, and cultural context. "While we’ve been working on AI for a year, today we’re releasing our work to the open-source community and also publishing a number of technical reports. Our focus is on developing AI for India—to improve AI for Indian languages, data scarcity, and cultural context," Aggarwal shared on X (formerly Twitter). As part of its open-source initiative, Krutrim is releasing multiple AI models, including Krutrim 2, an upgraded LLM; Chitrarth 1, a Vision Language Model; Dhwani 1, a Speech Language Model; Vyakhyarth 1, an Indic embedding model; and Krutrim Translate 1, a text-to-text translation model. Additionally, Krutrim has introduced BharatBench, a dedicated benchmark for evaluating Indic AI performance. Krutrim is also building India’s first GB200 AI supercomputer in partnership with NVIDIA. It is expected to be ready by March and aims to become India’s largest AI supercomputer by the end of the year. Aggarwal emphasised that while Krutrim has grown quickly in just a year, India still has a long way to go in AI. By open-sourcing its models, the company hopes to encourage collaboration and help build a strong AI ecosystem in India.

Microsoft is opening its on-device AI models up to web apps in Edge

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Microsoft is opening its on-device AI models up to web apps in Edge

Microsoft announced at its Build conference that developers can soon use new APIs to integrate on-device AI models with web apps in the Edge browser. The APIs will leverage Microsoft's Phi-4-mini model to enable features like text generation, summarizing, and editing. These APIs, available for trial in Edge's Canary and Dev channels, aim to become web standards, offering cross-platform compatibility with other browsers like macOS. Microsoft also plans to introduce a text translation API shortly.

BharatGPT consortium unveils 'Hanooman', a series of Indic large language models

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Economic Times · 1y ago

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The BharatGPT consortium, led by IIT Bombay, has introduced 'Hanooman', a series of Indic large language models trained on 22 Indian languages. The models, ranging from 1.5 billion to 40 billion parameters in size, are designed for enterprise use and will be open-sourced. They currently support 11 Indian languages, with plans to extend to all 22. Hanooman offers multimodal AI capabilities and is already in discussions with various industries for customized applications. However, one of the key challenges is sourcing quality datasets in Indian languages. Other models in the Indic AI space include Krutrim, OpenHathi, and Airavata.

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Google announced a real-time speech translation feature for Google Meet at Google I/O 2025. Utilizing Google DeepMind's language audio model, it allows natural conversations across different languages while preserving voice tone and expression. Initially available in English and Spanish, with more languages coming soon, it aims to connect global colleagues and families. Users will hear a faint original voice with overlaid translation. It starts beta rollout for consumer AI subscribers, alongside business testing for Workspace customers.

AI's 'insane' translation mistakes endanger US asylum cases

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Economic Times · 1y ago

AI's 'insane' translation mistakes endanger US asylum cases

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Ola, SarvamAI announce their large language models

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Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI Unicorn Krutrim Launches Its Chatbot

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Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal-led AI unicorn Krutrim has launched its chatbot, which is currently in beta mode. The chatbot can understand over 20 Indian languages and generate text in 10 Indian languages. Krutrim aims to create an India-first AI that is trained on datasets specific to the country's multicultural, multilingual context. The company plans to release a more advanced version, Krutrim Pro, in Q4 FY24. Krutrim is also working on developing AI infrastructure, including data centres and AI-optimized silicon chips, to support its future endeavors.

Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI unicorn Krutrim rolls out beta version of Krutrim Assistant; Here's how to access

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Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI unicorn Krutrim rolls out beta version of Krutrim Assistant; Here's how to access

Krutrim, an AI startup founded by Ola chief Bhavish Aggarwal, has launched its AI chatbot called 'कृत्रिम Assistant' in public beta. The chatbot is being compared to OpenAI's ChatGPT and is capable of understanding and generating text in over 20 Indian languages. Krutrim aims to provide a more localized and relevant experience for Indian users. In the future, the startup plans to launch a more advanced, multimodal version and build a comprehensive AI infrastructure in India. The chatbot has received mixed reactions from netizens.

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Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced the launch of the Krutrim AI Lab, aimed at advancing artificial intelligence in India. The lab introduces several open-source models, including Krutrim 2, India’s enhanced large language model, and Chitrarth 1, the first vision language model. Aggarwal emphasized the importance of catering to Indian languages and cultural contexts. Additionally, he revealed a ₹2,000 crore investment in Krutrim, with a commitment of ₹10,000 crore by next year. The initiative also includes the deployment of India’s first GB200 supercomputer in partnership with NVIDIA, set to be operational by March.

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