India's first AI chip: Bodhi 1 from Ola, next-gen Ojas, Sarv 1, and Bodhi 2 teased for 2028

You probably haven't heard of Ola, but they're an Indian automotive manufacturer, which has just announced they're going to design, build, and launch India's first-ever in-house AI chip by 2026 powered by the Arm architecture.

India is now jumping into the AI semiconductor market, with its first-ever in-house AI chip aimed at self-driving vehicles of the future. AI inside of autonomous vehicles is a big business now, and will be even bigger in the future and India wants in on that market.

Ola CEO Bravish Aggrawal took the stage at an event recently, announcing multiple AI chips are coming from Ola, each specializing in their respective scenarios. Aggarwal underlined the importance of India creating AI chips in-house, instead of relying on third-party semiconductor companies like TSMC, Samsung, or Intel. The company showed off some of its Bodhi series of AI chips, including the Sarv-1-cloud-native CPUs and its new Ojas edge AI chip.

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Ola's new Bodhi 1 is India's first AI chip, made for AI inference and fine-tuning, designed for frontier LLMs, Vision model, best-in-class power efficiency, and it will be coming in 2026.

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Bodhi 2 will be a world-leading AI chip, with Ola promising best-in-class performance for AI training, inferencing, and fine-tuning. Bodhi 2 will have 10T+ parameter model support, best-in-class power efficiency, scalable to exascale supercomputing, and novel architectures in AI IP, Scaleout IP, and memory hierarchy, with Bodhi 2 dropping in 2028.

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Ola also unveiled the Sarv-1, which is a new cloud-native AI chip that is powered by the Arm instruction set, with "high-performance" and a power-efficient architecture with optimized TCO, coming in 2026.

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After that, there's the introduction of the Ojas, India's first Edge AI chip which is made for the Edge AI platform to support wide edge ecosystem (automotive, XR, mobile, IoT, etc). Ola promises AI native architecture witth best-in-class efficiency, with a custom AI OS, Cloud-to-Edge continuum for seamless operation, and to power next-gen electric vehicles (EVs) that Ola is making.