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20, 30, 40, 50 LPA. Listen to tech Twitter and everyone is clearing crazy numbers. The data says almost no one is. Across all of India, just 1.4% of taxpayers earn ₹50 lakh a year. Only 0.47%, about 3.86 lakh people, make a crore. That is every profession combined, not just tech. In a ~6 million-strong IT workforce: the median software engineer earns about ₹8 LPA. Roughly 1 in 10 clears ₹25L. Under 5% clear ₹50L. Barely 1 in 100 hits a crore. TCS and Infosys freshers still start at ₹3.5–4 LPA, flat for 15 years. So why does it feel like everyone is loaded? Selection bias: only FAANG and product folks post their payslips. CTC is not cash: a ₹30L package bundles 4-year stock, variable pay and perks, not ₹2.5L hitting the bank every month. The Bengaluru bubble: in a product-heavy circle, the top decile starts to feel like the average. Tech pays well above the Indian average. It just doesn't pay 30, 40, 50 LPA to most. Those are the visible few percent who post, not the median engineer

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

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.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.

The Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5 cutoff is a serious warning for India. Anthropic disabled foreign access after a U.S. government directive citing national security concerns. That means a capability used by businesses, researchers and developers outside America can effectively be switched off from Washington. This is bigger than one company. If India’s AI stack depends only on foreign models, foreign GPUs, foreign clouds and foreign APIs, then strategic access can become conditional overnight. India needs: • sovereign foundation models • domestic compute and GPU capacity • Indian-language datasets • resilient AI supply chains • public-private research ecosystems The lesson is simple: AI access is now geopolitics. India cannot outsource its intelligence layer forever.