Krutrim is now a unicorn

January 27, 2024

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal has revealed that his artificial intelligence startup Krutrim has raised $50 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation.
Krutrim has now become India’s first AI stratup to reach the unicorn status.
- A ‘unicorn,’ is a privately-owned startup valued at $1 billion or more.
Krutrim, which means “artificial” in Sanskrit, is also in the process of developing data centres across the country, aiming to create supercomputer ecosystem for AI development in India.
Krutrim is a large language model (LLM) which has been trained on more than 2 trillion ‘tokens’; these tokens are sub-words used in conversations.
The AI platform is also set to have two classifications-
- Krutrim introduced in December 2023 while
- Krutrim Pro is set for release this year, with advanced capabilities for problem-solving and task execution.
This LLM uses a custom tokenizer to interpret the languages and scripts.