CEO and Founder Bhavish Aggarwal revealed goals for developing India’s first indigenous family of chips for general compute, Edge, and artificial intelligence (AI) during the company’s annual event, where he also unveiled plans for the third unicorn in the company, Krutrim.
The chips in the family are Ojas for Edge, Sarv for General Compute, and Bodhi for AI. By 2026, the company hopes to release its first chip. In addition, Bodhi 2 will debut by 2028.
The development of CPU and AI chips, platforms, and systems is the focus of Krutrim’s strategic alliances with Arm and Untether AI.
Additionally, Krutrim will increase its data center capacity from 20 MW to 1 GW by 2028, according to Aggarwal.
As per the startup’s announcement, “Krutrim will be able to provide India and the world with top-notch AI services because the data center will be a computing and data storage powerhouse.
“India has a special chance to emerge as a global superpower in cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) in the face of quickly shifting technological paradigms. India is well-positioned to spearhead the AI revolution, given its status as the origin of 20% of global data and its abundance of tech expertise,” said Aggarwal.
Expanding Services: Krutrim Cloud
Krutrim said that Krutrim Cloud will extend its offerings to include infrastructure domains, developer platforms, data platforms, AI models, AI platforms, and AI applications to meet the increasing need for AI, traditional, and cloud-native application workloads.
Ola Electric and Ola Consumer (formerly known as Ola Cabs) can currently access the cloud. The company uses the cloud to power a language hub with multimodal translation capabilities, an AI service center to handle customer service (the Ola group’s customer service has been replaced by this facility), and Maps APIs & SDKs to provide businesses with intelligent search.
Ola switched from Azure to Krutrim back in May, following Aggarwal’s conflict with Microsoft over statements on LinkedIn that he claimed to be about “pronoun illness.” Back then, he had also extended invitations to other businesses to transfer from Azure to its Indian stack.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of today’s event, Aggarwal predicted that many Indian enterprises would switch to an Indian cloud operator due to the incentive of freeing up the transition for a set period of time.
Going forward, virtual machines (VMs), cloud storage, cutting-edge security measures for data protection, and observability capabilities for accurate data monitoring are just a few of the approximately 50 new services that Krutrim Cloud will provide.
According to Krutrim, there are numerous AI services available in the cloud that are specifically designed to lower the cost of technological goods for Indian developers. Since Krutrim Cloud’s introduction, the firm claims that over 25K developers have used it actively and that 250 billion API calls have been made across all of its products.
The AI unicorn offered free cloud services worth INR 100 Cr to developers until Diwali 2025 to attract additional developers. For a year, developers working on the ONDC platform will also be able to access it for free.
In addition, the business, in collaboration with investors Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners India), DeVC, and South Park Commons, established “Krutrim for Startups” – an Udaan program with INR 50 lakh for the first cohort of startups.
The startup has been putting some time into these upgrades. Ola Electric’s chief of strategy, Ravi Jain, revealed that the firm is rapidly creating and developing in-house technology, such as chip designs and a submersion cooling system for cloud infrastructure.
