- Published on June 13, 2025
- In AI Features
What Keeps Team Krutrim Up at Night
“We’re always thinking about how more people can adopt what we are building and how we can build more use cases to make it relevant to everyday lives.”
- By Mohit Pandey
Indian startups, alongside the IndiaAI Mission, are focused on creating population-scale impact using AI and exploring use cases that cater specifically to the needs of India.
On a similar bid, Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of Krutrim, launched Kruti—the country’s first agentic AI assistant capable of executing tasks such as booking cabs, ordering food, paying bills, generating images, and carrying out in-depth research.
The tool supports both text and voice input, includes a read-aloud feature, features 11 Indic languages, and is built on top of Krutrim V2 LLM, which consists of 12 billion parameters.
On the sidelines of Kruti’s launch event, AIM had the opportunity to catch up with the three leaders behind the project at the Ola campus. Chandra Khatri, foundi
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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