“We used to spend Rs 100 cr a year but we’ve made that 0 this month by moving completely to our in house Ola maps! Check your Ola app and update if needed,” Aggarwal said in the post.
The firm is working on adding features like street view, neural radiance fields (NERFs), indoor images, 3D maps and drone maps to Ola Maps, Aggarwal said in his post. He added that cloud services provided by sister firm Krutrim AI will also have application programming interface (API) for Ola Maps. API is a type of software interface used by two or more computer programmes or components to communicate with each other.
The shift to Ola Maps follows Ola’s decision to move its IT workload from Microsoft’s Azure to Krutrim’s cloud, as ET had reported on May 11. Aggarwal had said the move was in response to Microsoft’s professional networking unit LinkedIn pulling down a post where Aggarwal had termed the use of the pronoun ‘they’ an “illness” that had fallen afoul of LinkedIn’s community policies.
The decision had come just days after Krutrim AI, also founded by Aggarwal, opened up its cloud infrastructure and cloud services for business. Krutrim Cloud offers GPU-as-a-service on its AI computing infrastructure, allowing enterprises and developers to train and fine-tune their models. On May 22, Aggarwal posted that Ola had moved all of its workloads out of Azure in a week.
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On May 30, ET reported that Aggarwal was also moving Ola’s IT workload out of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
For Azure, Ola’s departure would mean a daily revenue loss of Rs 5-25 lakh, while for AWS it would range between Rs 30 and Rs 40 lakh, ET had reported at the time. However, the shift would likely not hugely impact the two firms, which have amassed a 40% market share in the $8.3-billion public cloud market in India.
On June 28, Aggarwal announced the prices for Krutrim AI’s cloud GPUs on demand, starting from Rs 105 per hour to upwards of Rs 1,160 per hour, depending on the type of GPU being used.
Content Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com