India's Krutrim AI Raises $150M to Build Regional LLM for Indic Languages
Krutrim AI, backed by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, closed a $150M Series B to develop a large language model covering 22 Indian languages. The model already outperforms GPT-4 on Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali benchmarks, with planned API access for Indian enterprises.
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