Krutrim Launches Krutrim-2: India's Largest Open-Weight Multilingual Foundation Model
Ola-backed AI lab Krutrim has launched Krutrim-2, a 70 billion parameter open-weight multilingual foundation model trained on 22 Indian languages, marking the largest open-source release from an Indian AI lab.
Key Facts
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Krutrim has released Krutrim-2, a 70-billion parameter open-weight multilingual large language model, available for commercial use under a permissive license.
Model Snapshot
Benchmark Performance
Infrastructure
Trained on Krutrim's in-house Bhumi-1 GPU cluster (16,000 H200 GPUs) over 92 days. The lab also released Krutrim Studio, a hosted inference platform with API pricing 40% below comparable global providers for Indic workloads.
Why It Matters
Krutrim-2 is the strongest evidence yet that India can build globally competitive foundation models. The open-weight release benefits the entire ecosystem of Indian AI startups, enterprises and government deployments that need cost-effective Indic-first LLMs.
What's Next
Krutrim has committed to releasing a vision-language variant (Krutrim-V) in Q3 and a smaller 8B model optimised for on-device inference by year-end.
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