An AI Summit that sidelines its own builders? • 7 AM queues • 9 AM entry • 12 PM full evacuation • Hours of sanitization • PM visit at 5 PM . Day 1 Ends here Meanwhile — exhibitors, delegates, startup founders left outside. No water. No clarity. Media shows celebration. Ground reality was chaos. If access was limited to select high-value guests, just say it upfront. Don’t mobilize the ecosystem and then displace them. This is not how we build India’s AI future. @abhish18 @GoI_MeitY @PMOIndia #AiSummit #aiImpactSummit

Some problems are worth solving. Some prizes are worth winning. The SahAI for Shiksha Hackathon 2026 by @WadhwaniAI with support from Google.org powered by Reskilll is rewarding innovation that actually matters, with prizes that reflect just how seriously we take this mission. ₹15,00,000. That's what's on the table. 🏆 Grand Winner: ₹6,00,000 Cash Prize Certificates 🥈 1st Runner Up: ₹4,00,000 Cash Prize Certificates 🥉 2nd Runner Up: ₹3,00,000 Cash Prize Certificates 🎁 Special Track Prize*: ₹2,00,000 Best Track- Agnostic Innovation And beyond the cash? You get mentorship from Wadhwani AI experts and the backing of India's leading AI institute. Your idea could be worth ₹6 lakhs. Go build it. 🔗 Register by 3rd June 2026: lnkd.in/gzYY6eiA

Unpopular opinion: Indian devs aren't behind in Web3, the ecosystem is just looking in the wrong places Everyone's complaining that India doesn't have enough Web3 developers. I'm looking at 6 million developers and wondering what they're talking about. The talent is there. It's in Indore. Coimbatore. Patna. Nagpur. Not just in Bangalore's startup cafes where the same 200 people keep meeting each other. Web3 protocols are spending millions on developer relations. Then running their hackathons in three cities and wondering why nobody new shows up. The pipeline isn't broken. You're just not plugged into it. If your developer strategy starts and ends with Twitter and and big-city events, you're missing 90% of the builders who are actually going to build this thing. Where do you think the next wave of Web3 developers is coming from?

Imagine losing a fortune because you got high in 2015 and set your password to a literal insult to the police, only for an AI to dig it out of your dusty college laptop 11 years later. You actually cannot make this up. AI is the ultimate unlock for human chaos.

Met @pratykumar years ago at a @Meta hackathon Reskilll was hosting. He was one of the judges. Even then, you could tell he was building toward something bigger. IIT Bombay grad. PhD from ETH Zurich. Years at Microsoft Research and IBM. Over 89 published AI papers. But what stood out wasn't the resume. It was the conviction. While most founders were wrapping APIs, Pratyush had co-founded @ai4bharat and OneFourth Labs; pioneering open-source AI for Indian languages. Today, he and Vivek Raghavan (who built parts of Aadhaar's infrastructure) are running @SarvamAI . The mission: Build India's sovereign AI stack. From scratch. And they're shipping: Sarvam Vision OCR: 84% accuracy, beating Google Gemini and ChatGPT on Indian language documents Bulbul V3: Natural text-to-speech in 11 Indian languages at fraction of global costs Sarvam-M: 24B parameter model, 40% trained on Indian languages Selected by Government of India to build India's first sovereign LLM. $53M raised. 114 employees. Growing 226% YoY. Here's why this matters for our ecosystem: For years, Indian developers consumed AI built for English-first markets. Now they can build on models that understand code-switching, regional nuances, and cultural context. Sarvam isn't just a startup. It's infrastructure for the next 1,000 Indian AI companies. The handshake between what Pratyush is building and what 4.4M developers on our platform need, that's the inflection point. India is Claude's 2nd biggest market. 100M ChatGPT users weekly. But we've been consumers, not creators. Pratyush chose the hardest path when easier ones existed. He's solving the infrastructure problem that enables everything else. Watching this journey has been inspiring. Proud of what Sarvam is building. Proud that Indian founders are tackling foundational AI challenges. This is how we go from being AI consumers to AI creators.

random thought of the day: hiring from resumes must be so embarrassing. imagine shortlisting 50 people based on a PDF only to realize none of them can actually solve a real-world problem. 💀 we need to start valuing what people build, not how they format their bullets.

India is gearing up to be the powerhouse of Web3, but we need leaders at every level to make it happen. Great initiative by @MastryHub Pick your role and get involved!