Krutrim Si Designs, in any other case generally known as Krutrim, will quickly launch its first product — a generative synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot app. The founding father of the startup, Bhavish Aggarwal took to X (previously generally 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 have the ability to perceive the 22 scheduled languages of India. The merchandise may also have the ability to generate content material in eight languages.
Aggarwal posted on his social media deal with on February 4, and posted, “Testing the @Krutrim app earlier than launch! Releasing subsequent week. Wanting good although we’ll preserve enhancing the fashions put up launch too.” Later, in a sequence of a number of posts, he additionally showcased the generative capabilities of the chatbot.
Whereas a few posts highlighted that the chatbot is able to answering fundamental queries and even providing options, one specific put up obtained a variety of flak from netizens.
Upon asking the Krutrim AI chatbot whether or not India was a rustic earlier than independence, the app responded with “Sure, India was a rustic earlier than the British Raj. It had its personal political system, tradition, language, faith, and custom.” Captioning it with “Because of this we have to construct India’s personal AI”, Aggarwal additionally posted the response of OpenAI’s ChatGPT which said, “Earlier than the institution of the British Raj, the area that’s now generally known as India was not a single unified nation within the fashionable sense however a group of assorted 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 ‘Ship’ 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 Professional, the latter of which is claimed to be a multimodal foundational mannequin. The fashions have been educated on over two trillion indic language tokens. The startup has additionally stated that its generative AI apps shall be voice-enabled, though it isn’t identified if the function shall be added at launch. On its web site, the startup has additionally posted its AI mannequin’s benchmark scores, evaluating them in opposition to the Meta Llama 2 7B mannequin which has been educated on greater than 500 billion tokens and is a coding assistant. The chart posted exhibits Krutrim beating Llama 2 7B on the Arc, Hellaswag, Copa, Jeopardy, Piqa and different benchmarks. Nonetheless, it carried out worse on MMLU, Bigbench, and Lambada_open benchmarks.
