New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- Ola's AI division, Krutrim, has fired approximately 50 members of its linguistics research team, the third round of retrenchment since June 2025. The team leads and transcribers serving a regional language like Bengali, Malayalam, and Punjabi are affected.

The most recent wave of layoffs has taken the number of employees who have been downsized by Krutrim to over 200 employees in this year alone, indicating that the company is in the process of restructuring itself. The company previously made 100-plus employees redundant in July in the second round of layoffs in an effort to develop leaner teams.

As per reports, Krutrim noted that the layoffs were a strategic repositioning as it began to strengthen its emphasis on...