Bhavish Aggarwal announces Krutrim's deployment of DeepSeek’s R1 for Indian developers

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal on Tuesday said Krutrim has deployed Chinese company DeepSeek’s latest foundation model R1 671B on Nvidia’s H100 graphics processing units in India.

“While we in India should be cautious with the DeepSeek app, we can totally make use of the open source model namesake, if securely deployed on Indian servers, to leapfrog our own AI progress,” he said in a post on X.



He claimed that it is the most powerful open-source model available and will be offered to Indian developers at a rate of Rs 1 per million tokens for the month of February.

Last month, Aggarwal took to X to announce the deployment of DeepSeek’s advanced AI models on Krutrim’s local servers.

He had said, “India can’t be left behind in AI. @Krutrim has accelerated efforts to develop world class AI. As first step, our cloud now has DeepSeek models live, hosted on Indian servers.”

In January, Union Minister of Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw also mentioned that DeepSeek models would soon be hosted on servers in India.