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kritrim launches India’s first frontier research AI Lab to democratise AI innovation; commits investment of Rs10,000 crore by next year

Bengaluru, February 5, 2025: kritrim, India’s first AI unicorn, today announced the launch of kritrim AI Lab, the country’s first AI frontier research lab. This pioneering initiative is set to make AI research accessible, attract the best talent, and establish India as a global leader in open-source AI. As AI transforms industries worldwide, kritrim AI Lab takes a step towards creating state-of-the-art AI infrastructure, supporting the research and developer community, and building cutting-edge AI models tailored for Indic languages and real-world applications.

In line with building its growth roadmap, kritrim announced an investment of ₹2,000 Cr today (equity and debt) with a commitment of ₹10,000 Cr by next year. kritrim also strengthens its global collaborations, by announcing India’s first GB200 cluster deployment along with NVIDIA scheduled to go live by March 2025. kritrim aims to build India’s largest supercomputer in India by the end of the year.

Bhavish Aggarwal

Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder, kritrim said, “With kritrim, our vision is to develop AI for India and make it better for Indian languages, data scarcity and cultural context. While we are behind global benchmarks, we have made good progress in the last one year. With kritrim AI Lab, we hope that the entire Indian AI community collaborates to create a world-class Indian AI ecosystem.”

kritrim AI Lab champions open source AI and democratise AI innovation by fostering collaboration with academia, startups, and developers. It deploys state-of-the-art computing resources to accelerate AI capabilities. With its multilingual AI models that represent India’s diverse linguistic landscape, kritrim AI Lab ensures equitable access to AI across all Indian languages. By creating AI solutions optimised for scale and affordability, the research lab enables cost-efficient AI innovation and attracts top talent that pushes the boundaries of AI knowledge.

kritrim has open sourced new state-of-the art Indic AI models to enhance AI adoption in India:

kritrim AI Lab focuses on critical AI research domains essential for digital transformation and development of India’s first large-scale AI models, capable of competing globally. The multimodal Lab is aimed at building AI that understands and processes text, speech, and visuals across multiple languages. It also addresses India’s data scarcity challenge by digitising knowledge artefacts and creating high-quality datasets. Additionally, by incorporating AI for real-world scale, kritrim AI Lab ensures AI systems that are efficient and adaptable to India’s high-volume, resource-constrained environments.

To supercharge innovation in India, kritrim previously announced over 50 new services on kritrim cloud making it ready for most applications needed by Indian developers. The infrastructure services include Virtual Machines (VMs), cloud storage, state-of-the-art security measures for data protection and cutting-edge observability features for precise data monitoring. Additionally, the AI cloud services announced were AI Pods to enable low-cost access to best-in-class GPUs, AI studio for building compound AI applications, model catalogue with latest LLMs and vision models, and now code/low code training, finetuning, inference and model evaluation capabilities.

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