I love books, people, things they build with their hands. I build businesses. @nokia @microsoft @clevertap @last9io; dubito ergo sum but I have faith in humans.

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I deal with strong emotion but writing and the only place I seem to be able to write is here on twitter. Some of you have asked me to write more but I have been writing here for sometime. At a suggest of oomf I am creating a thread of some of these posts.
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Ahead of his time and this tribe will grow.
I left IT for a trade. For several reasons, (AI was one of them but not the most pressing one). 1) I like AI. I have 12 apps in the app store right now. They are being used, (231 installs last week). But I can see the writing on the wall. IT jobs are not going away completely...
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Look it is impressive that Sarvam did this with only 40 million in funding. From private market (Lightspeed, peakXV etc). To put that in context, Quick commerce companies lose more money every fortnight. That is also likely less than what elevenlabs makes out of India every year. This is why I am not worried over much about this sovereign AI brouhaha. The private market will figure out the resource allocation and engineers will ship.
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Compute: We were the first team in India to train at scale. We trained the sovereign models at the scale of ~3400 H100s. We are now putting serious capital behind the next step. India's first Blackwell cluster is now online and used by us, and we are building momentum towards operating 10s of megawatts in compute on Indian soil by 2027. Models: With Sarvam 105B, India's first sovereign model built from scratch, we showed that highly capable models can be trained here, independently. More importantly, the capability is now compounding across data, training, evaluation, systems, alignment, and deployment intuition. And we are scaling up to trillion-parameter class models, with larger runs built for coding, agents, and security. A coding model is coming soon... Inference: We already host our own models, with third party usage tripling in the last three months. We are soon taking live a production-grade token factory with the price, throughput, latency, reliability, and governance that banks, governments, enterprises, startups, and developers need for real systems. Products: Our products are now reaching India scale. Voice was our first wedge. It powers millions of interactions per day, doubling in the last three months, while we continue to optimise costs. Like voice, another modality at scale in India is documents, and we are hitting exponential growth of our new document intelligence product. Our fully managed agents product is live with enterprises and is being launched for all next month. Deployment: Most of the value in AI is unlocked in the last mile. We learned that by doing it across engagements in enterprises, government, and strategic sectors. Now we are turning that learning into a platform that allows every organisation to hill climb on its own use cases - whether it is building an agent, customising the harness, creating the data/tool backbone, or finetuning the model on custom data. Talent: Serious researchers are joining us across pretraining and RL, including people who have done meaningful work at the frontier. We are also starting our San Francisco office as the conduit for frontier AI ambition for India first, then the world.
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Anthony Bourdain: “…the world is, in fact, filled with mostly good and decent people who are simply doing the best they can. Everybody, it turns out, is proud of their food (when they have it). They enjoy sharing it with others (if they can). They love their children...”
World Cup tourists have discovered New Jersey deli:
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I have not watched CNBC in a decade I think. Cannot stand it. But. I watch In the Money very regularly now, it is my primary source of Indian markets meta analysis now. @mysandz has that patient maths teacher vibe (who already knew that most of what he was telling me was bouncing hard but the poor man kept at it anyway). Any way I an reiterating that you go watch him and subscribe. Something to learn in each short episodes and if you watch at 1.5X he is still speaking patiently at that speed. :-P youtube.com/watch?v=1r87dYs3…
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Arre you Bangalore people stop fighting about what a farmer's market is? Don't you people have work? such waste of good oxygen!!!!
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OK This is actually a very affirming take.
not a single person on this list was born a billionaire the world that i want to build, live and vote for is a where this will continue to be true every generation, except the numbers keep getting larger
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you guys should never have made fun of Krutrim, you guys upset the poor fellow and now we don't have sovereign AI? Serves us right.
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Ok this is a brilliant explanation.
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the spacex ipo irks libs because they think meritocracy is a lib thing and it turns out meritocracy doesn’t actually exist and the closest thing thing to actual meritocracy is capitalism and they’re bad at it because it rewards risk-taking not credentialism
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Ah! So it wasn’t the “Whole” truth. Such is the way with brands that make their performative moral purity their identity. Zero sugar, no added sugar, made in India/bharat, almost zero margin, etc etc All of these are red flags.
The Whole Truth’s “no added sugar” labelling on been changed to “sweetened with dates”. LEARNING: 1. Words can be truthful, yet never reveal the reality. 2. What we don’t say is as important as what we say.
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You know Satya would have handled a White House much better.
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Gabriel echoing desi tech bro angst from down under.
can’t use claude because i’m australian,, too fruity for codex… please albanese, we need a sovereign mythos Immediately
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Meets an arsehole at the airport. Tried to be reasonable with him. Arsehole is arsehole and doubles down. Conclusion: arsehole Indians give India a bad name when they go abroad. Perfectly reasonable outrage but why is this about India’s image. 🫩
Told a guy at the airport who broke the line, that there was indeed a line. First he pretended like there was no line. Then said I should complain to the airline. When I asked the lady at the counter why she didn’t tell him, she says “bola sir, kya karein, sunte nahi hain”. I told him to have some courtesy and some sense, so he proceeds to tell me I should go teach in a school, not him. Such folks travel abroad, and then give India a bad name!
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How does one know these things? Or is this cope? Because let me tell you 90% of couples with kids are also miserable. Why do you think that unc on the RWA whatsapp group is such an arsehole. Let me speculate: it is probably because he tried to fuck some “purpose” into his poor wife and now she won’t touch him unless he gets his tubes snipped while the “purposes” they spawned costs them 50% of their household income and won’t leave home at 18. The best experience in this world is to raise tiny kids. Dogs lets you have that experience every 12-15 years (😭🥲) Without your lovely female partner having to mess her biology up and potentially giving up her career and real purpose.
90% DINK or SINK couples by choice in 30s will be feeling purposeless and lonely in 40s. In 30s, you are young, newly married, a lot to explore about each other, you'll have friends who are either single or newly married, you can have company with similar types of people. But as time passes, things get boring, your friends become parents, their priorities change, they're no more pack the bag and let's travel the world, they are now busy in dropping kids to school and bringing them back home, their travel schedules dependent on their kid's school schedule. And suddenly you start feeling lonely, purposeless in life, you don't know why you're earning, where to spend and all. Human is a social animal as they say, you can't live in isolation and be happy forever. Don't fall for instagram DINK couples life, that works only on Instagram and that too for a limited time.
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And I here thinking our most valuable export is excellently opinionated founders
India’s problem is not having enough opinionated founders.
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Let’s ignore the money grubbing arseholes uncs for a moment. They just want to eat Sarkari paisa. What is the argument for having a sovereign AI at right this moment. It is clear that we don’t have the venture ecosystem for funding this and the government probably should not be investing I this anyway. Why do we need this? What are we unable to do right this moment that is important to the country?
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ALT Vae GIF

Dear Indian Corporates, dump Microsoft 365, embrace Zoho One to support and preserve tech Sovereignity.
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I cannot resist but respond with some Shakespeare. “..Let it work, For ’tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard..” -- Hamlet
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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FWIW this is the right response. But governments just can't give companies money like this and I don't think there is a single VC who has the conviction to do 1/10th this cheque size. The Chairman of a half billion india based VC fund was here today on twitter asking the government to step in. This VC fund has almost zero AI investment. What I am saying is that this is not the job of the government but the markets. The markets don't think this is worth doing. :-)
India needs to figure out how to wire 1B to @SarvamAI asap to train models. Similar to #nuclear the world will divide into countries that have #recursiveselfimprovement vs countries that don’t. This is as important as #Pokharan was @TrivediVedant @aaditya @Sid_1_0 @AjeyGore
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Heh! Same thought this morning and if you have not read the book trust me it is great.
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we are speedrunning creating the Zones of Thought from the Vinge universe. you will only be able to think superhuman thoughts in America
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Elephants are 5000 kgs of a whole lot of muscle. Last I checked, they weren't getting an elephant-sized scoop of whey isolate with every meal. And the cows that so kindly produce our whey aren't exactly tucking into a ribeye between fields. They just eat grass, no? Think about it some-- the largest, most powerfully built land animals on the planet are, almost without exception, herbivores. Meanwhile, the proteinmaxxers of today (chubby lil me) are convinced you cannot so much as look at a dumbbell without first consuming the macerated remains of half a chicken. So who's right? x.com/_CynicalCyanide/status…

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