Ola has announced a strategic partnership with Lenovo to develop India’s largest supercomputer. The announcement comes a month after Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal committed Rs 2,000 crore to his AI venture, Krutrim, with plans to invest Rs 10,000 crore by next year.
Ola is also setting up an AI research lab, building its own cloud infrastructure and AI chips, — with a team of 700 employees dedicated to its full-stack AI initiatives. The company’s AI-first cloud will include application layers, agentic platforms, contact center AI, and manufacturing AI solutions.
At Lenovo TechWorld India 2025 in Mumbai, Ola Group CIO Navendu Agarwal said, “We are building the largest infrastructure and along with Lenovo, we are building the largest supercomputer of India that will be powered in our cloud.”
“We are building an agentic platform that can be used by startups and the ecosystem to build applications for the country at the right cost point,” Agarwal added.
The company is simultaneously working on Krutrim 3, an improved open-sourced large language model with 700-billion parameters. This will represent a significant advancement over previous iterations, — Krutrim 1 operated on 7 billion parameters and Krutrim 2 operated on 12 billion parameters.
