Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim AI Brings DeepSeek R1 to Indian Developers

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal said Krutrim AI 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.

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

He said it is the most powerful open-source model and will be available to Indian developers for ₹1 per million tokens in February.

Last month, Aggarwal announced on X that Krutrim had deployed DeepSeek’s advanced AI models on its local servers.

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

Launched in April 2023, Krutrim — a Sanskrit word meaning "artificial" — claimed to have reached unicorn status in January last year. A unicorn is a startup valued at $1 billion or more.

The company was founded by Aggarwal and Krishnamurthy Venugopala Tenneti, a board member of ANI Technologies, which owns Ola and Ola Electric. Krutrim has already released two versions of its large language model: Krutrim 1 and Krutrim 2.

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