Krutrim’s semicon team exits loom over chip plansClose to half a dozen senior employees and executives from the chip design team of Ola’s AI arm, Krutrim, have left the firm since Septembe...
27 Nov, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Third round of layoffs, more leadership exits hit KrutrimOla's AI venture, Krutrim, has conducted its third round of layoffs, impacting nearly 50 employees in the linguistics team amidst restructu...
02 Sep, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Ola’s AI venture Krutrim partners with data lake software company ClouderaThe move is intended to help Krutrim leverage data and AI to enhance operations, improve user experience, and support development of large-...
07 Aug, 2025, 02.20 PM IST
MakeMyTrip’s record raise, Zuck’s AI talent grabMakeMyTrip has raised $3.1 billion in the largest fundraise by a listed Indian internet company. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
20 Jun, 2025, 08.26 PM IST
Fresh exits at Krutrim as company ramps up work on AI models and semicon chipsKrutrim, Ola's AI arm, faces executive departures and some layoffs. Despite this, Krutrim continues AI semiconductor and model development....
20 Jun, 2025, 11.05 AM IST
Rohit Kapoor on Swiggy’s food delivery slowdown; Group life insurance gains tractionHappy Tuesday! As the food delivery market cools, aggregators are scrambling to find growth avenues. This and more in today’s ETtech Mornin...
03 Jun, 2025, 07.21 AM IST
Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud productsOla founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutr...
03 Jun, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Intel, AMD former executives throw the hat into AI semiconductor ringExecutives from major semiconductor companies like Intel and AMD are leaving to launch AI chip startups in India, fuelled by government inc...
29 May, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Exclusive: Ola brand IP may transfer to Bhavish Aggarwal’s family office amid group restructuringANI Technologies operates the group’s ride-hailing business and holds the brand IP, which is currently licensed to Ola Electric, a separate...
05 May, 2025, 04.27 PM IST
India’s tariff silver lining; Krutrim’s hiring pushHappy Friday! High tariffs may reduce India’s electronics exports to the US, but its edge over China and Vietnam could drive growth. This a...
04 Apr, 2025, 07.18 AM IST
Ola partners with Lenovo to develop Krutrim 3, build India's largest supercomputerOla has a 700-strong team building its full-stack AI offerings, said CTO Navendu Agarwal at the Lenovo Tech World India 2025 in Mumbai.
06 Mar, 2025, 06.01 AM IST
Ola's AI venture runs into human (resources) glitchMost of the exits took place between March and November 2024, some quitting within a year of joining the firm and a few leaving in a matter...
03 Mar, 2025, 02.10 PM IST
OpenAI’s Asian alliance; Krutrim 2.0OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is forging key alliances in Japan and South Korea to drive enterprise growth. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
04 Feb, 2025, 07.36 PM IST
Ola has exited Google maps, moved to in-house navigation system: Bhavish AggarwalBhavish Aggarwal, cofounder of Ola Cabs, said the company will now use its in-house navigation system, exiting Google Maps. This comes a mo...
06 Jul, 2024, 09.05 AM IST
Ola is shifting its IT ops to Krutrim from AWS cloudThis comes two weeks after Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal snapped ties with Microsoft Azure after LinkedIn deleted his post related to "prono...
30 May, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Hindi LLM maker Sarvam AI to open platform for businessFounded by former AI4Bharat researchers Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar in July, Chennai-headquartered Sarvam is planning to release mode...
18 Dec, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Ola, SarvamAI announce their large language modelsIn two separate developments on Wednesday, mobility unicorn Ola and AI startup SarvamAI have announced their large language models (LLMs) t...
14 Dec, 2023, 06.01 AM IST