Krutrim AI Boasts Multilingual Mastery: Supports India’s 22 Scheduled Languages
Krutrim Si Designs, commonly referred to as Krutrim, is gearing up to introduce its inaugural offering: a cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot application. Bhavish Aggarwal, the visionary behind the startup, recently took to social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) to unveil the anticipated launch timeline of the maiden AI product. Alongside the announcement, Aggarwal provided a sneak peek into the app’s functionalities through shared screenshots.
Notably, Krutrim emphasizes its commitment to linguistic diversity by ensuring that all AI products it releases will possess the capability to comprehend India’s 22 scheduled languages. Moreover, the chatbot will boast content generation capabilities across eight languages.
Aggarwal’s social media update on February 4th hinted at the imminent release of the @Krutrim app, slated for launch the following week. Despite showcasing promising initial results, Aggarwal iterated the team’s dedication to refining the AI models even post-launch. Subsequent posts on Aggarwal’s feed offered glimpses into the chatbot’s diverse capabilities, ranging from basic query responses to offering nuanced suggestions. However, amidst the anticipation, one post triggered a wave of criticism from netizens, raising questions and concerns about the app’s functionality.
Upon asking the Krutrim AI chatbot whether India was a country before independence, the app responded with “Yes, India was a country before the British Raj. It had its own political system, culture, language, religion, and tradition.” Captioning it with “This is why we need to build India’s own AI”, Aggarwal also posted the response of OpenAI’s ChatGPT which stated, “Before the establishment of the British Raj, the region that is now known as India was not a single unified country in the modern sense but a collection of various kingdoms, empires, and principalities.”
Many users responded to the post calling it a case of AI hallucination (a phenomenon where large language models (LLMs) create false or non-existent information), and that ChatGPT’s response was more accurate. Some users also pointed out a UI flaw where the ‘Send’ icon was not aligned with the empty spaces in the text box.
As per the company, the AI firm has built a family of LLMs including Krutrim base and Krutrim Pro, the latter of which is claimed to be a multimodal foundational model. The models have been trained on over two trillion indic language tokens.
The startup has also said that its generative AI apps will be voice-enabled, although it is not known if the feature will be added at launch. On its website, the startup has also posted its AI model’s benchmark scores, comparing them against the Meta Llama 2 7B model which has been trained on more than 500 billion tokens and is a coding assistant. The chart posted shows Krutrim beating Llama 2 7B on the Arc, Hellaswag, Copa, Jeopardy, Piqa and other benchmarks. However, it performed worse on MMLU, Bigbench, and Lambada_open benchmarks.