SpaceX's IPO, the largest in history, raising $75 billion at a valuation of $1.77 trillion, is a signal to markets everywhere that deep tech, space infrastructure, and long-horizon innovation are the next frontier and will attract capital at massive scale. For India, we need to listen and continually back sunrise sectors early, build patient capital, and double down on space tech, AI, and semiconductors as strategic growth engines.

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I would frame the issue facing Bharat as sovereign tech in general and not just sovereign AI. AI is the tip of a whole pyramid of capabilities, most of it we don't have and we don't even hear about. Most of those capabilities are not very expensive to acquire (unlike AI itself) - they require time and talent, and far smaller amounts of money than AI. As an example, Japanese firms we don't hear about have critical technologies that AI data centers need. Japanese play in many such critical sectors. I would recommend a broad national effort at every layer of the tech pyramid. We must do AI R&D but we must not lose sight of the pyramid.

Thank you @kris_sg for moderating a very interesting panel on AI. The core theme, understandably, was Sovereign AI. @BharatInnov2026

Fantastic Day 1 at @BharatInnov2026 120 of the best Indian #Deeptech startups, highly curated set of investors and strategic partners from France and India, high quality panels and incredibly well organized in every way.

La culture est un fondement essentiel du solide partenariat entre l’Inde et la France. Lors de « Bharat Innovates », le Président Macron et moi avons visité une exposition d’art de deux artistes français, Théophile de Bascher et Thibault de la Lance, récemment venus à Jaipur pour une résidence artistique.

Public transport must be at the heart of India's urban future. Yet it accounts for just 25% of urban trips, while congestion already costing our cities more than $22 billion a year. What Mumbai has done in BKC with Friday Public Transport Day, every Indian city should aim to replicate. Designate a day. Engage employers, businesses and institutions. The default must shift from private vehicles to public transport. It starts with one day and grows into a city's habit. Gr8 initiative @MMRDAOfficial @DrSanMukherjee @WRIIndia

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward. I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress. When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment. Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks. They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around. Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits? The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

Dr Abdul Kalam was a visionary way ahead of his time. He saw the need for sovereign tech back in 1998. We have to work hard to catch up now. It is doable, we have the talent. The private sector must make R&D a big priority and the government can assist. One concrete idea is to hold annual evaluations of critical tech capability across 100 critical sectors and publish a leaderboard in each area. Rank companies by capability. Let competitive forces do the rest. The government can also institute a prestigious "Dr Abdul Kalam Award" exclusively for engineers and scientists. We must do this annually and create visibility on the progress we make in each critical sector.

America is doing what Dr Abdul Kalam wanted the Indian govt to do in 1998. After pokharan II blast US-West sanctioned India. Kalam told me (which I have recorded many times) to persuade PM Vajpayee (who I was close to) to ensure the sanctions continue for our tech to develop

🇺🇸 US: Diesel 🇨🇦 Canada: Diesel 🇦🇺 Australia: Diesel Major economies run double-stack freight trains, but they still rely on diesel because standard electric lines can't clear two-story trains. But instead of settling, India custom-built a 7.5-meter high-rise grid. Today, India is the FIRST and ONLY country on Earth running double-stack containers on pure electric power. This is the scale of transformation happening under the Modi govt.

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America. First thoughts: 1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology. 2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead. We must keep these two ideas in mind. What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you? We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100 billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses. Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there. Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

SpaceX IPO, listing, and beyond, is a true test for capitalism. The valuation does not fit any traditional matrix and is a huge bet on the future course of planet earth. Only time will tell whether we, the human race, have arrived into the fairy tale world we grew up in as children, or are in a mega bubble. Either ways, kudos to the man who came as an immigrant, and to the country that has allowed such boundless creativity to flourish despite all the risks it embeds.

Introducing Varya. Built by @Avataar, #Varya delivers frontier-quality results at materially lower inference cost. Deeply grateful to #IndiaAIMission and @SecretaryMEITY for the support, mentorship and conviction in helping bring this to life. Thank you @RajanAnandan, @brettsingh, @shaileshlakhani for your invaluable partnership through this journey. @GoI_MeitY @peakxvpartners Try it: varya.avataar.ai

Population scale adoption of AI in India requires "extreme affordability", local languages and cultural relevance. Incredibly excited to have @Avataar launch the first Indian Video AI model #Varya! check it out here varya.avataar.ai/ 1/27th the cost of WAN 2.2 and 27x faster the best open model in the world. India loves video and now AI video becomes affordable in India Congrats @AluruSravanth and team @Avataar! @peakxvpartners @brettsingh @shaileshlakhani

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Zoho Mail has won the SE Labs UK Security Award for Enterprise E-mail Security Services, along with Cisco and TrendAI (link in comment). Our teams have spent multiple decades of painstaking, un-glamourous R&D work with email security and anti-spam. We entered the enterprise email market dominated by Microsoft and now we are winning global recognition for the hard work by our R&D teams. As a result of that work, Zoho Mail is doing well with enterprises and governments around the world today. A lot more R&D in the pipeline!

Shri S. Krishnan (@SecretaryMEITY), Secretary, MeitY, addressed the gathering at STPI Tech Summit 2026, held on the occasion of STPI's 35th Foundation Day. In his remarks, he highlighted the role of STPI in the country's tech journey, the transformative impact of AI on the IT/ITES landscape and the opportunities that lie ahead as India rides this new technological wave. 🎙️ Watch key moments from his address ✨ #STPITechSummit2026 #STPI #MeitY #DigitalIndia #Innovation #ViksitBharat @GoI_MeitY @AshwiniVaishnaw @JitinPrasada @SecretaryMEITY @arvindtw @_DigitalIndia @NeGD_GoI @startupindia @NICMeity @investindia @NITIAayog @rnivruti @debjani_ghosh_ @inregistry @NIELITIndia @cdacindia @_BHASHINI @DPIITGoI @intel @escnewdelhi @guptaa_sanjay @TiEDelhi @OfficialINDIAai @DeepakBagla_ @TigerAnalytics @Accenture @TCS @Infosys

#India's Weather Revolution India launches a new Regional Met Centre in #Lucknow. 🌦️ Mission Mausam targets, 100 Doppler radars nationwide within two years. 📡 Real-time data now shields agriculture, aviation & lives. 🌾 Early warnings are already saving lives. 🙏