Inside Krutrim's chatbot ‘Kruti’: Bhavish Aggarwal teases launch

Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) company Krutrim, has teased the launch of the company's chatbot, tentatively named 'Kruti', later this month.

In a post on X, Aggarwal said, "@surdattack, @navendu and Krutrim team working crazy hard to make this a great product as good as global apps and better for Indian context!"



Aggarwal attached videos and images of the chatbot. Like OpenAI's ChatGPT, the assistant seems to have three modes: 'Instant' for quick answers, 'Insightful' for reasoning, and 'In-depth' for deep research.

One of the images demonstrates agentic capabilities, with the chatbot booking a cab ride through an app. The last image shows a request asking the chatbot to create a Ghibli-style portrait. The Japanese animation style became a worldwide rage on ChatGPT last month.

Aggarwal aims to take on global rivals ChatGPT, Claude and Google's Gemini, as well as China’s DeepSeek, with an Indian counterpart. In February, he announced a Rs 2,000 crore investment in the AI venture, with a commitment to step it up to Rs 10,000 crore by next year.

The Ola founder also unveiled Krutrim AI Lab, with a commitment to “driving cutting-edge AI innovation for India while contributing to the global AI landscape”.

Aggarwal announced on April 8 that Krutrim became one of the world’s first companies to host Meta’s new Llama 4 models "entirely on it’s India-hosted cloud".


Krutrim has also deployed DeepSeek’s latest foundation models on Nvidia’s H100 graphics processing units in India.