Bhavish Aggarwal's artificial intelligence company, Krutrim, teams up with Cloudera to increase AI capabilities within India

In a significant development, AI startup Krutrim, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, has partnered with Cloudera to enhance data processing capabilities for businesses in India. This partnership aims to support large-scale analytics and data lake workloads for Ola and Krutrim Cloud.

The collaboration between Krutrim and Cloudera is designed to empower businesses to create and package cost-effective solutions on India's own sovereign cloud. Navendu Agarwal, Senior Vice President and Head of Business at Krutrim, stated that Krutrim is focused on building a cloud infrastructure with deep integrated capabilities across infrastructure, data, and AI to better serve the unique needs of the Indian market.

Krutrim's AI infrastructure, including its computing stack and foundational models across text, voice, and video, is tailored to India's diverse linguistic and cultural landscape. The platform's solutions are designed to process large-scale datasets in real time from various data sources, enabling faster and accurate intelligence for Ola.

Cloudera's infrastructure currently powers Ola's operations and will be offered to other enterprise customers on Krutrim Cloud. The platform's scalability and security empower Krutrim to deliver AI-powered data lake solutions to businesses, startups, and researchers across India.

Using Cloudera's data platform and consulting services, Krutrim has developed solutions to process large-scale datasets in real time from various data sources. Mayank Baid, Regional Vice President of India & South Asia at Cloudera, expressed that Krutrim's vision to create a robust AI infrastructure for India aligns with Cloudera's mission to enable trusted enterprise AI through data.

The partnership between Krutrim and Cloudera is exciting as they co-develop and implement the solution framework that brings to the broader enterprise adoption in India. Krutrim's AI-powered data lake solutions, powered by Cloudera, will provide clients with scalability and performance to advance data lake use cases.

The infrastructure spans compute, storage, data management, and AI-powered end applications designed for the Indian market. Krutrim is building a vertically integrated cloud infrastructure for enterprise-scale needs, and this partnership with Cloudera is a significant step towards achieving that goal.

Ola Group is already running mission-critical workloads on the stack provided by Krutrim and Cloudera, and is working with Krutrim's professional services team on data quality, governance, and natural language access. The partnership between Krutrim and Cloudera will undoubtedly revolutionise the way businesses in India handle and process large-scale datasets, paving the way for more efficient and accurate intelligence.

Bhavish Aggarwal's artificial intelligence company, Krutrim, teams up with Cloudera to increase AI capabilities within India