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SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim


Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into an AI startup he founded as the country pushes to establish itself in a field dominated by

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into an AI startup he founded as the country pushes to establish itself in a field dominated by U.S. and Chinese firms. The funding announcement coincides with unicorn startup Krutrim making its AI models open source and unveiling plans to build what it claims will be India’s largest supercomputer in partnership with Nvidia. Krutrim has also developed its own evaluation framework, BharatBench, to assess AI models’ proficiency in Indian languages, addressing a gap in existing benchmarks that primarily focus on English and Chinese.

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