Krutrim Si Designs, in any other case often known as Krutrim, will quickly launch its first product — a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot app. The founding father of the startup, Bhavish Aggarwal took to X (previously often known as Twitter) to disclose the launch timeline of its first AI product, and shared screenshots to preview its capabilities. As per the startup, all of the AI merchandise launched will be capable of perceive the 22 scheduled languages of India. The merchandise can even be capable of generate content material in eight languages.
Aggarwal posted on his social media deal with on February 4, and posted, “Testing the @Krutrim app before release! Releasing next week. Looking good though we will keep improving the models post launch too.” Later, in a sequence of a number of posts, he additionally showcased the generative capabilities of the chatbot.
While a few posts highlighted that the chatbot is able to answering primary queries and even providing options, one specific put up acquired numerous flak from netizens.
Upon asking the Krutrim AI chatbot whether or not India was a rustic earlier than 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 additionally posted the response of OpenAI’s ChatGPT which said, “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 customers responded to the put up calling it a case of AI hallucination (a phenomenon the place giant language fashions (LLMs) create false or non-existent data), and that ChatGPT’s response was extra correct. Some customers additionally identified a UI flaw the place the ‘Send’ icon was not aligned with the empty areas within the textual content field.
As per the corporate, the AI agency has constructed a household of LLMs together with Krutrim base and Krutrim Pro, the latter of which is claimed to be a multimodal foundational mannequin. The fashions have been skilled on over two trillion indic language tokens. The startup has additionally mentioned that its generative AI apps can be voice-enabled, though it isn’t recognized if the function can be added at launch. On its web site, the startup has additionally posted its AI mannequin’s benchmark scores, evaluating them towards the Meta Llama 2 7B mannequin which has been skilled on greater than 500 billion tokens and is a coding assistant. The chart posted reveals Krutrim beating Llama 2 7B on the Arc, Hellaswag, Copa, Jeopardy, Piqa and different benchmarks. However, it carried out worse on MMLU, Bigbench, and Lambada_open benchmarks.
