In a strategic move that signals serious momentum in India’s AI race, Ola’s artificial intelligence startup Krutrim has officially acquired BharatSah’AI’yak, a civic and governance-focused AI platform originally developed by Samagra, a policy research and development firm.
This acquisition strengthens Krutrim’s growing portfolio of indigenous AI tools by adding deep expertise in governance, education, and agricultural AI applications. The integration will enhance Krutrim’s large language models (LLMs), its proprietary Krutrim Cloud, and its agentic AI platform Kruti—the company’s newly launched AI assistant app aimed at enterprise and public sector solutions.
BharatSah’AI’yak: A Brief Overview
Samagra created BharatSah’AI’yak to bridge India’s public service gaps using artificial intelligence. The platform enables real-time, AI-driven solutions in domains such as school administration, agricultural extension services, and digital governance for state departments.
Samagra built the tool with deep field experience, working directly with state governments to co-develop scalable tech interventions. BharatSah’AI’yak analyzed large-scale administrative data, automated decision workflows, and assisted with real-time grievance redressal and planning.
Krutrim recognized the value of BharatSah’AI’yak’s framework, especially its ability to contextualize AI solutions for India’s complex bureaucratic systems. With the acquisition, Krutrim gains a head start in delivering domain-specific AI for India’s public sector—something few AI unicorns have managed so far.
Krutrim’s Vision: Build for Bharat
Krutrim, a brainchild of Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, set out to create India’s first full-stack AI ecosystem. Unlike global players who build AI for generalized use, Krutrim designs its systems specifically for India’s linguistic, economic, and infrastructural diversity.
Through this acquisition, Krutrim is not just adding a product—it is absorbing Samagra’s top AI talent and mission-driven design philosophy. The BharatSah’AI’yak team will now work within Krutrim’s core AI division, focusing on tailoring LLMs and agentic models for India’s state and district-level governance.
Bhavish Aggarwal emphasized the importance of this move in a recent internal town hall: “To solve real Indian problems, we must build Indian-first AI. This means tools that understand the nuances of Indian agriculture, schools, health missions, and bureaucracy. BharatSah’AI’yak brings that DNA.”
Integration into Krutrim Cloud and Kruti
Krutrim has started integrating BharatSah’AI’yak into its Krutrim Cloud—a sovereign Indian alternative to global AI infrastructure. The cloud platform supports model deployment, inference acceleration, and data hosting within Indian jurisdiction. By hosting BharatSah’AI’yak natively, Krutrim ensures full data compliance and localization.
The platform will also become a major component of Kruti, Krutrim’s agentic AI assistant. Kruti operates as a multitasking AI designed to serve enterprises, developers, and eventually, government agencies. By integrating BharatSah’AI’yak, Kruti will now assist in solving real-time civic issues—from tracking school dropouts to helping district officials respond to complaints in native Indian languages.
The agentic system behind Kruti allows domain-specific agents to co-operate, learn from data, and make decisions without needing constant human intervention. BharatSah’AI’yak’s modules will bring tested government workflows into Kruti’s expanding repository.
The Importance of Agentic AI in Governance
India’s administrative system involves millions of employees managing billions of data points across states and sectors. Most tasks—from generating land records to updating beneficiary databases—still depend on manual inputs or siloed digital tools.
Krutrim wants to change that using agentic AI—a model where autonomous digital agents learn rules, process data, and execute decisions. With BharatSah’AI’yak embedded, these agents can now perform specific civic tasks that previously required layers of human coordination.
For example, an education agent can track real-time teacher attendance across districts, identify pattern violations, and send nudges to supervisors. In agriculture, the system can monitor sowing patterns, match them with rainfall forecasts, and issue advisories through vernacular interfaces.
A Growing AI Ecosystem for Bharat
Krutrim’s acquisition of BharatSah’AI’yak fits into a larger strategy to build sovereign AI tools for India. Unlike global LLMs that often fail to grasp Indian languages or public sector requirements, Krutrim’s models train on local data, support Indic languages, and prioritize regulatory compatibility.
This ecosystem includes:
- Krutrim OS, a full-stack AI runtime environment
- Krutrim LLMs, trained on Indian-centric data across multiple languages
- Krutrim Cloud, India’s indigenous compute layer and AI hosting
- Kruti, an agentic AI interface with real-time application potential
With BharatSah’AI’yak now embedded in this stack, Krutrim adds ready-to-deploy civic modules. These aren’t proof-of-concept ideas; they have already functioned inside state departments under Samagra’s pilot partnerships.
Strategic and National Implications
The Indian government has pushed for digital public infrastructure (DPI) and home-grown AI solutions in recent years. BharatSah’AI’yak brings real-world experience of building DPI from the ground up. With Krutrim’s scale and funding, these solutions can now deploy at a national level.
Moreover, India’s AI strategy has leaned toward responsible innovation—prioritizing ethical AI, privacy compliance, and inclusion. BharatSah’AI’yak fits this approach, having operated under close coordination with public sector institutions and ensuring minimal disruption while driving change.
Krutrim, by absorbing this platform, now holds one of the most domain-relevant civic AI tools in the country. Government agencies looking for AI implementation partners may now turn to Krutrim more readily.
What This Means for the Industry
This acquisition sets a precedent. Indian AI unicorns cannot just chase generative art or chatbot interfaces—they must tackle real problems: land records, ration cards, farmer support, water access, and school dropout prediction. BharatSah’AI’yak proves that governance-focused AI is not only viable—it’s essential.
Startups in India now face a call to go beyond flashy demos and focus on impact. Krutrim’s move signals a shift toward mission-aligned, infrastructure-focused AI development. The acquisition also reinforces the idea that meaningful AI innovation often begins not in tech parks, but in district offices, farms, and classrooms.
Conclusion
Ola’s Krutrim didn’t just buy a platform—it acquired years of research, field-tested modules, and domain intelligence built into BharatSah’AI’yak. By doing so, it positions itself as the frontrunner in government-facing AI for India.
As Krutrim integrates this powerful platform into Kruti and Krutrim Cloud, India inches closer to an AI-enabled governance future—one that understands its people, speaks their languages, and solves their daily challenges.
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