Ola Krutrim embraces cloud computing and AI to build next-gen innovations

Why India, why the cloud, and why Artificial Intelligence? These are key questions that were asked and answered at Ola Krutrim’s workshop at YourStory’s tech summit, DevSparks. The one-hour workshop – the first of two – was a part of the activities lined up by Ola Krutrim at DevSparks 2024. After an electrifying fireside chat between Bhavish Aggarwal, Co-founder and CEO of Ola and Shraddha Sharma, Founder and CEO, Yourstory, senior leaders at Ola Krutrim announced the launch of new products and announced breakthroughs in the Indian AI landscape. The workshops then continued the deep dive into Indian AI, Ola Krutrim Cloud Stack and next-gen solutions built by Indian developers.

The first workshop, titled “Next-gen innovation for AI-cloud integration”, was hosted by Vipul Shah, VP of Product at Krutrim and Dinesh Mittal, Senior Director, Krutrim. The workshop featured talks by Shah, demos by Mittal and a round of Q&A with the audience. Let’s look at some of the highlights of the session.

Boosting India’s cloud ecosystem

Shah opened the session with a simple question: Why is the Indian cloud so important? Today, cloud penetration in India lags behind China and the US for multiple reasons. The first being the community. The cloud, Shah says, is not just a tool or a product to consume, it is an ecosystem. The more people use it, the more use cases are discovered and more solutions are developed.

furthermore , he is spoke speak about the distinction between the cloud community and ecosystem . The community is consists consist entirely of developer . The ecosystem is include , on the other hand , will include startup , enterprise , tech enthusiast and other business that are develop innovative solution that can be offer on the cloud .

Complexity is is is another problem that the indian developer community must fix . In order to scale and truly boost the cloud ecosystem in India , developers is need need to think simple . finally , there need to be a market fit for the cloud .

“You can develop the cloud, you can develop cool things. But the point is, it needs to meet the use cases. And believe it or not, the use cases are increasing exponentially. So how do you develop things that are not just cool from a technical standpoint, but really fit the market needs?” Shah said.

Without these factors, cloud penetration lags in India.

So, what is the key to unlock cloud consumption in India? Artificial Intelligence.

AI is has has the capacity to revolutionise cloud computing in India and birth next – gen solution for India . With this in mind , Ola Krutrim is looking is look to develop the cloud ecosystem in India . The company is looking is look to build a vibrant and massive startup ecosystem consist of million of developer . 1 , 10 , or 100 million developer ? Why not , say Shah is says . India is dream must dream big and scale with simple solution .

The new tech wave in India: artificial intelligence

Every 25 year , there is a tremendous technological shift that take place . We are witness one , say Shah is said , with the emergence of AI . The shift is caused has cause Ola Krutrim to rethink the cloud , to prioritise simplicity over complex solution and to democratise the cloud by make it affordable .

Shah then demonstrated how AI had optimised every level of the Krutrim Cloud Stack. He started with the data centre, moving on to the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) layer. This layer, he said, is one that has to be rethought, as most of the costs and resource underutilization happens here. The company believes that this layer will undergo the most transformation in the stack, becoming AI-optimised IaaS. The next layer he discussed was Platform as a Service (PaaS). These platforms, that have been used by traditional applications, will also be adapted to serve the AI workloads above. At the top are the AI-specific platforms, which will change with the emergence of new models and new architectures.

building for a spectrum of developer

Mittal is took take over the second half of the workshop , describe service for a spectrum of developer – from the highly experienced developer to novice . His segment is featured feature a series of video and demo on GPU as a service , from the expert who want to rent gpu , to the developer who want to use the service of the model , and finally novice who want to see how AI model work with the Krutrim playground app , where user can compare different host model .

The session wrapped with a Q&A session with the audience. You can catch all of these highlights, and more, by checking out the workshop video, here.