Ola shifts entire workload to in-house AI firm Krutrim Cloud
What's the story
Indian multinational conglomerate, Ola, has successfully migrated its entire workload to its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) company, Krutrim. The announcement was made by founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on May 22 via social media platform X. This move comes a week after the company ended its partnership with its previous cloud service provider, Microsoft Azure. Ola was a customer since 2017.
Engagement
Developers show interest in Krutrim Cloud
Aggarwal revealed that approximately 2,500 developers have registered to experiment with Krutrim Cloud. He announced this on X, expressing his excitement about working with these developers. The CEO stated, "More than 2500 devs have signed up! Will be working with everyone to get onto our cloud services over coming weeks." This shows a growing interest in Ola's new cloud service provider.
Transition
Ola's decision to switch cloud service providers
The decision to transition from Microsoft Azure to Krutrim was first announced by Aggarwal on May 11. This decision followed an incident involving LinkedIn, a job-search portal owned by the US-based company. Aggarwal stated on X, "Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we've decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own Krutrim cloud within the next week."
AI innovation
Krutrim: Ola's in-house AI firm and cloud service provider
Krutrim, translating to "artificial" in Sanskrit, is an independent company within the Ola Group. It is dedicated to building an entire AI computing stack. In May, Ola introduced several new software and cloud services developed by Krutrim. These include advanced GPU resources accessible to developers and enterprises via Krutrim Cloud. Launched in December 2023, Krutrim became India's first AI unicorn earlier this year, after securing $50 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation.