Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim AI follows DeepSeek’s lead, open sources models to develop ‘AI for India’ | Mint-OxBig News Network

Bhavish Aggarwal-led AI startup Krutrim has today launched an AI lab with the promise of releasing its work to the open source community. The announcement to open source Krutrim’s AI models comes amid a sudden rise in popularity of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which has made a name for itself with its cost-effective open source models.

In a post on X, Aggarwal wrote, “While we’ve been working on AI for a year, today we’re releasing our work to the open source community and also publishing a bunch of technical reports.”

“Our focus is on developing AI for India – to make AI better on Indian languages, data scarcity, cultural context etc. Here’s a list of models we’re releasing.” the entrepreneur added.