Anindita Nayak
Bhubaneswar, May 24
Ola group of companies has finished transitioning all its workload to its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) firm Krutrim, announced founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal. This move comes a week after ending its partnership with global cloud service provider, Microsoft Azure.
“As committed, Azure spend is now 0. All workloads on Krutrim Cloud. Within a week. Will help others also exit and move to our own Indian stack. More than 2,500 devs have signed up! Will be working with everyone to get onto our cloud services over the coming weeks. Around 2,500 developers had signed up to try Krutrim Cloud,” wrote Aggarwal, on the social media platform X.
On May 11, Aggarwal announced on X that the company would sever its connection with Microsoft Azure and transfer all operations to its AI firm Krutrim within a week.
Azure, created by Microsoft, is a cloud computing platform.
The decision was prompted by LinkedIn, a job-search platform owned by Microsoft, removing Aggarwal’s post on “pronoun illness.” “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. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this,” he wrote on X on May 11.
Since 2017, Ola has been a significant customer of Microsoft, known for its ride-hailing services and as India’s leading electric scooter manufacturer. In the same year, Ola partnered with Microsoft to create a connected vehicle platform for car manufacturers worldwide.
Krutrim, operating within the Ola Group, focuses on developing AI computing infrastructure. It recently launched the Krutrim Cloud, offering advanced GPU resources for tasks like AI training and 3D rendering. Established in December 2023, Krutrim became a unicorn with a $50 million funding round, reaching a valuation of $1 billion.
