Ola Accelerates AI Talent Acquisition for Krutrim Labs in Key Global Hubs Ola Accelerates AI Talent Acquisition for Krutrim Labs in Key Global Hubs

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Posted by NewAdmin on 2025-04-10 08:04:08 |

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Despite recent high-profile exits, Ola Group’s artificial intelligence venture Krutrim is ramping up its global hiring efforts to strengthen operations at its AI labs in Bengaluru, the US, and Singapore.

Krutrim is actively recruiting for key positions, including Generative AI Research Engineer, Research Scientist – Speech & Audio Recognition, and AI Cloud Platform Engineer. This hiring spree comes as the company continues to push forward with its mission to build a comprehensive AI ecosystem tailored for India.

A Krutrim spokesperson confirmed the hiring plans in a statement,

“Krutrim has a bold mission to build the full AI stack for India — from frontier AI model development, and AI Cloud, to silicon design. There is a lot of interest among top talent globally towards this mission, and we are bringing together exceptional minds from India, Singapore, and Silicon Valley to help shape the future of AI.”

To strengthen its leadership, Krutrim recently appointed Sunit S as Senior Vice President of Product. However, the company also experienced senior-level departures earlier this year, including Ashish Kumar, Director of Applied AI, who left in February after a year-long tenure, and Priyanka Nayak, Senior Engineering Manager, who exited in January after 18 months with the company.

Still, CEO Bhavish Aggarwal remains confident in the venture’s trajectory. In February, Ola announced a ₹2,000 crore investment in Krutrim, with a commitment to scale it up to ₹10,000 crore by next year.

Krutrim is currently working on multiple AI models, such as:

• Krutrim 2 LLM
• Chitrarth 1 (Vision Language Model)
• Dhwani (Speech Language Model)

These models are part of Krutrim's broader open-source initiative and reflect its commitment to accessible, India-centric AI development. In addition to core models, Krutrim has also introduced:

• Vyakhyarth 1
• Krutrim Translate 1
• BharatBench, a benchmarking tool for evaluating AI performance in Indian contexts.

The Krutrim AI Lab was officially announced in February, shortly after the startup revealed that it would host open-source GenAI models from Chinese company DeepSeek on its cloud platform.

Meanwhile, investor interest in India’s GenAI sector continues to surge. Since 2014, Indian GenAI startups have raised over $1.2 billion, with the market projected to surpass $17 billion by 2030, according to data.

The Indian government is also moving swiftly to boost the country's AI capabilities. Under the IndiaAI Mission, the Centre has committed ₹10,037 crore to AI development. As part of this initiative, the government is inviting startups and private companies to share anonymized, non-personal datasets on its AIKosha platform.

AIKosha is equipped with an AI sandbox, development tools, content discovery features, dataset scoring systems, and secure access mechanisms, offering a robust infrastructure for AI innovation.

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw recently stated that India is planning to develop its own domestic large language model (LLM) to further strengthen its AI independence.

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