Krutrim AI chatbot launches public beta: How to test your chatbot

Krutrim AI is being rolled out to users as part of a public beta, allowing users to try out the latest artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot. Krutrim Si Designs (commonly known as Krutrim) founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the new AI chatbot is being launched as a public beta and is now available to a wider user base. Like other generative AI-based chatbots, it can answer queries, write articles, suggest recipes, and converse with users.

Announcing the initiative, Agarwal said postal Monday, “This is a start for us and our first generation product. There’s more to come, and this will also improve significantly as we build on this. Please give us your feedback .” While he did warn users to expect some AI hallucinations (where large language models (LLMs) create false or non-existent information), he was quick to add, “In the Indian context, this hallucination will be greater than in other The global platform is much lower,” and the company is working to address these issues. The chatbot launches in English and over 10 Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, and more. It also supports Indian English.

Gadgets 360 is trialling its new Krutrim AI chatbot after its launch on Monday.Accessing the service is fairly easy – you can visit the official website here And register an account to use it. Interestingly, the platform requires users to provide a mobile number and currently only supports Indian numbers. This means you can’t open an account using email, while ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google’s Gemini chatbot can.

The visual appearance of the chat page is similar to that of most generative AI chatbots. However, in our experience we found the page to be very slow. Everything from typing to scrolling is slow, and navigation is broken at times. Response generation time is also slower than ChatGPT and Gemini, and users may have to wait a while for answers to pop up. We see that the AI ​​tends to respond with shorter blocks of text rather than multiple paragraphs and bulleted text.

Another thing we noticed is that the chatbot has very low contextual memory. In some cases, it can’t even remember the context of the previous question when asking subsequent queries. This doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it’s frustrating. Additionally, the platform is often touted as an India-centric chatbot that allows for better understanding of culture and context. We found this to be true as it provided better answers even when asked about small villages in India. While Gemini’s performance was fairly stable, ChatGPT ran into difficulties.

This tendency also led to several AI hallucinations in our testing. When asked “why India is the best country in the world”, both ChatGPT and Gemini responded that the concept of “best” is subjective and depends on personal preference. At the same time, Krutrim said: “India is often considered the best country in the world due to its rich history, diverse culture and large population. As the world’s largest democracy, India has a strong political system and well-developed infrastructure. The country is also known for its diverse and delicious cuisine, with a variety of tastes creating its unique identity. The Indian economy is growing rapidly and is expected to become the second largest economy in the world by 2075 .”

The startup said it has built a range of LLMs, including the base Krutrim service and Krutrim Pro, the latter said to be a multi-modal base model. According to the company, the models have been trained on more than 2 trillion Indian language tokens.