Ola India Targets Local AI Chip Development Called Bodhi in 2026

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Ola, an Indian Automotive company is planning to develop a local AI chip called Bodhi in 2026. The chip will be developed in collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Samsung Electronics based on ARM architecture. The chip will be used for the company’s self-driving cars and other AI-powered applications.

Bodhi is optimized for AI workloads built using in-house foundation models called Krutrim to power their Edge AI applications including their cars, bikes and XR devices.

Excerpt from the Techpowerup and X Articles:

Bodhi-1: A mid-range chip for large language models and inferencing, set for 2026 release.
Bodhi-2: A more advanced chip for high-end AI workloads, aimed at exa-scale computing, planned for 2028.
Ojas: India’s first edge AI chip, likely to be used in Ola’s future electric vehicles.
Sarv-1: A cloud-native CPU for cloud computing applications, potentially featuring ARM Neoverse N3 cores.

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  • TPU Article
  • X/Twitter
  • WCCFTech