Bangalore: Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of Ola, has revealed that the company will shift its workload to its own cloud platform called Krutrim after it has decided to exit the sky blue within a week.
Ola became Microsoft’s customers starting from 2017.
“because LinkedIn is a Microsoft purchase, we have moved all our workloads off Azure into our on cloud @Krutrim which we are going to be switching over during this week. The team is very excited about this. In case any other developers also want out of Azure, free cloud for a full year as long as you don’t come back to Azure!” In addition, he said these remarks through blog posts he made in X and Ola.
Krutrim operates an AI unicorn that was launched by Aggarwal. It also allows firms, researchers and developers access to Krutrim’s AI compute infrastructure with basic models of Krutrim hosted on its platform alongside open source models. In January, Matrix Partners India led a $50 million funding round with participation from others. According to Agarwal, the company is now valued at over $1 billion so it might become India’s first pure play artificial intelligence unicorn.
Agarwal’s decision came following his recent LinkedIn post criticizing the use of pronouns “they” as “disease”. This violated LinkedIn’s Professional Communities Policy hence leading to the deletion of the post by the social media network. Arguing that such an issue should not exist in India; Agarwal added that this pronoun problem reflected woke political ideology towards rights but it may not be suitable in Indian context. “I won’t get into this debate however LinkedIn thinks Indians should have pronouns in our life and we can’t criticize them because they will force us into agreeing with their opinions or cancelling our plans.” If they did that while talking about me then I’m sure about how much of this Western DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) system has affected my business as founder and CEO in terms of instilling an empowering mentality within our professional lives according to me.
According to Agarwal, he wanted to stress on Indian technology platform and his concern that big western tech monopolies would dominate his existence in India which is inclusive. He further clarified that he was not against global tech companies but opposed the forced imposition of ideologies in the name of freedom of thinking Indians.
In order to address this issue, Ola intends to build a social media framework using ONDC and UPI with the help of Indian developer community. “Only ‘community code’ that should be there is the legal language followed by Indians. There must be nothing prohibited at all by any corporation. Ownership should belong to creators themselves rather than data profiteers who then preach about ‘community’.” Company owned materials.
