Ola Has Nothing to Do with Microsoft Azure Anymore
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal fulfilled his promise by moving all AI infrastructure workloads from Microsoft Azure to Krutrim AI Cloud.
“Will help others also exit and move to our own Indian stack. More than 2500 devs have signed up!! Will be working with everyone to get onto our cloud services over coming weeks,” he added.
Krutrim, which became India’s first AI unicorn, launched Krutrim AI Cloud earlier this month, offering AI computing infrastructure and access to both its foundational models and open-source models like Meta’s Llama 3 and Mistral, enabling developers to build and run LLMs cost-effectively. This move positioned Krutrim to compete with major cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS.
However, many users pointed out that Ola’s workloads is primarily on AWS instead of Azure.
“Does he think people who deploy and run companies’ cloud or work in AI are as stupid as consumers who buy two wheelers?” wrote Kissan AI founder Pratik Desai.
Another user pointed out on X, “Why does it sound like a pre-planned marketing campaign for launching Krutrim cloud? You can’t have these things done overnight for sure. Good way to grab attention.”
But what made Aggarwal take this drastic move?
Recently, Microsoft’s LinkedIn took down his post, in which he called the networking platform’s usage of non-binary gender pronouns like they/them “pronoun illness” and hoped it would not reach India.
According to him, “pronoun illness” is being taught by “big city schools” and is increasingly appearing in CVs—which he clearly is not a fan of. He believes India “needs to know where to draw the line in following the West blindly!”
That is why he decided to move his workloads from the big tech’s cloud to its inhouse cloud. This is why he decided that India need to create its own tech ecosystem so that we do not get “governed by western Big Tech monopolies.”
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