Last evening the Shunya AI team met the Krutrim team at an event in Gurugram. We learnt about the progress that Krutrim has made over time.
Krutrim Progress:
- Investment of INR 10,000 crores in setting up India’s largest GPU cluster
- India has been restricted by the US on how many GPUs we can get
- Krutrim team showcased the progress made across Krutrim 1,2 and the “3” that they are launching soon
What excited us?
First things first. A company that’s building in Bharat. For Bharat and then for the world. That in itself is a solid beginning. Of-course we are late.
- The use case of voice (Bharat is voice first and text second in our experience)
- We also liked how Krutrim is being trained on Bharat first contexts (in both images, dialects) etc.
The opportunity that we saw
- Its great to build GPU clusters, LLMs and the great tech
- BUT – how will you make Bharat’s students, professionals and MSMEs be AI ready? ( भारत के युवा को कैसे पता चलेगा कि करना क्या है ? ये सारी बातें तो उनके लिए अनिल कुंबले कि गूगली हैं | )
This is exactly the problem that we are solving at Shunya AI. We are training Bharat’s youth to be AI ready.
The Krutrim event could have been better
This event could have been a lot more powerful. We are talking Bharat. But this event lacked the Bharat energy.
More power to Krutrim
In Bharat we generally find gaps first, instead of supporting each other. In 2013 my first startup was accelerated by Intel & Berkeley in Silicon Valley. I learnt there first hand how the ecosystem supports you and that’s hwo you progress.
At Shunya AI, we will support Krutrim. Our team has decided that we will partner with Krutrim and train Bharat’s youth on Krutrim models.
This might seem like a small drop in the AI ocean. But in the longer run, this will have a critical and compounding impact for Bharat.
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