Ola’s Krutrim upgrades Kruti to agentic AI assistant from chatbot

Ola‘s artificial intelligence (AI) arm Krutrim launched indigenous agentic assistant, Kruti, months after the founder first teased the chatbot.This is a key announcement for the company, as ET had reported earlier this month that its other products are not seeing much traction. Founders and developers ET had spoken to saw Krutrim’s large language models (LLMs) and cloud offerings as subpar and lacking technical maturity compared to hyperscalers.The Bengaluru-based startup became India’s first AI startup to reach unicorn status after it secured $50…