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Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal’s announcement that Krutrim would be hosting Meta’s Llama 4 models on Indian servers drew harsh criticism from multibagg.ai founder Aaditya Aanand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyone with a good GPU at home could host open-source models like Llama 4, according<\/a> to Aanand, who made fun of the hype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

multibagg.ai Founder Aaditya Aanand Criticizes Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing Krutrim’s hosting of DeepSeek models (8B to 700B parameters) and Meta’s Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, Aggarwal portrayed the launch as a significant turning point in Indian AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per Aanand<\/a>, \u201cAfter raising 280 million dollars, he is excited for hosting an open source model? An intern having a good PC with GPU can do it in their bedroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He presented it as a move toward accessible AI for Indian developers and startups, emphasizing reasonable pricing of \u20b97 to \u20b917 per million tokens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Aggarwal linked the endeavor to “technological independence” and “digital sovereignty,” stating that Indian talent can only be empowered by domestic infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aanand denied the pricing claims, pointing out that models such as the GPT-4o-mini and Gemini Flash are less expensive, costing less than \u20b910 per million tokens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian Developers Had Access to AI Models Before Krutrim Did<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He mocked the idea of “democratizing AI,” asserting that Indian developers had access to these models before Krutrim did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He attacked Aggarwal’s patriotic rhetoric, comparing it to “pretending to put the Indian flag on the moon” and claiming that hosting open-source models isn’t revolutionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krutrim’s offering, according to Aanand, is merely a repackaging of pre-existing tools and lacks originality and innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that Krutrim is only “renting it locally” under a patriotic marketing guise rather than creating India’s AI future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By giving users access to robust large language models housed on Indian servers, Krutrim hopes to compete with international AI cloud platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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