Pradheep
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Pradheep
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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.


Dear Readers, if you have kids, invest some money for them in US$ or Euros. This is critical. You must have observed that cost of education abroad has become unaffordable now. Let me speak from my own example. I went to INSEAD in 2014 for my MBA. The total fee was €65,800. Now it is €109,860 During this time, INR has weakened substantially. The average EUR/INR rate in 2014 was ₹81 The current EUR/INR rate is approximately ₹107 In 2014, the total was 53 Lakhs. In 2026, this is 1.17 Crores. Unless, somehow we saw an average salary rise of 10% each year, you ain't making it. For most this salary rise was 6-7% CAGR in the last 12 years. Effectively, we are priced out. ***** INSEAD was just an example to prove how the middle class got priced out of foreign education. Next comes high quality asset ownership in India. Most of the new developments ("supply") in metros is being created exclusively for NRIs. You know why? because they are high quality customer base. You know why? because they save in $/€. Want to stay rich? Do what NRIs do (or at least try to).

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I pity those who seek their followers in social media from Pakistan & George Soros gang.



















