Ashish Dave | आशीष दवे | 𑀆𑀰𑀻𑀱 𑀤𑀯𑁂

Never bet against India 🇮🇳

Uncle agaye, Uncle agaye has a seperate fanbase .. 32 years to this masterpiece by Rajkumar Santhoshi....

Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability. For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.

any sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art

we've come a long way over the past 18 years, from getting cancelled on twitter to getting cancelled on X happy birthday to us ✨

🚨 BREAKING: Gita Press, Gorakhpur, has announced its FIRST-EVER trilingual edition of the Bhagavad Gita, featuring Sanskrit, Hindi, and English in one volume. => It is aimed at young readers and those unfamiliar with the Devanagari script 👌

If you put VCs on truth serum, I wonder what % would say they came up with their fund size based on their desired personal fee income vs. their fund strategy.

🚨Sparrow Capital raises Rs 475 crore in third fund to bet bigger on early-stage startups Early-stage venture capital firm Sparrow Capital has raised Rs 475 crore ($50 million) for its third fund, increasing its firepower to back seed-stage startups at a time when investors are becoming more selective about early-stage bets, the company said on July 2. Global investors accounted for roughly 60 percent of Fund III, including endowments, foundations, fund-of-funds and family offices, while the balance came from Indian family offices, HNIs, founders and operators. The mix is a departure from Sparrow's earlier funds, which were predominantly backed by Indian LPs. It also mirrors a broader trend in India's venture ecosystem, where established managers such as Fireside Ventures are increasingly raising capital from global institutional investors alongside domestic backers. Moneycontrol was first to report Sparrow Capital was in talks to raise around Rs 400 crore in its third fund in July 2025. moneycontrol.com/news/business/…

India uses its 4th most powerful military in the world to help countries facing a crisis, even if they are 9000 miles away, instead of attacking them. India set up a makeshift hospital during the Turkey earthquakes too, treating thousands of people as its military helped Turkish authorities clear out the rubble. During the Russia-Ukraine war, India evacuated its own citizens along with stranded citizens of other countries, including Pakistani citizens. India also led the medical and rebuilding efforts (by sending financial aid) during the Nepal earthquakes in April 2015. India sent the highest number of troops to the region and led the operations for months - free of cost for Nepal. Even during the fall of Yemen in 2015, India evacuated its own citizens as well as American and European citizens, who were stranded there and expecting no help from their own military. All this was FREE OF COST. India didn't send a bill to any of these countries. We owe India gratitude, instead of the racist treatment it gets on social media.

Gobierno de la India envio un hospital de campaña que ya esta Venezuela.

#OperationAmistad Responding with speed, reach and compassion, two #IndianAirForce C-17 Globemaster III aircraft completed a demanding 23-hour flight to Venezuela, covering an aerial distance of over 14,000 km from Delhi to Caracas. The aircraft landed at Maiquetía International Airport, Caracas, carrying 66 tonnes of humanitarian aid- including an Indian Army Field Hospital, over 35 tonnes of relief supplies, medicines and medical equipment, and two BHISHM Cubes—demonstrating India's capability to deliver hope across continents whenever called upon. This transoceanic deployment reaffirms India's growing role as a responsible first responder and a reliable humanitarian partner. #HADR #HumanitarianAssistance #HarKaamDeshKeNaam @DefenceMinIndia @DrSJaishankar @IndiaVenezuela @SpokespersonMoD @HQ_IDS_India @adgpi @indiannavy @CareerinIAF

Tanta güevonada que se habla de este país y mírenlos, pura gente seria y comprometida, la próxima vez que hablen de la India recuerden que esa gente en pleno mierdero envió un hospital de campaña

Bhartṛhari in Nīti Śataka अर्थानामार्जने दुःखम् आर्जितानां च रक्षणे। आये दुःखं व्यये दुःखं हा अर्थः कष्टसम्भृतः॥ There is pain in earning wealth, and pain in protecting what is earned; pain in its arrival, pain in its spending - alas, wealth is sustained only through hardship.

VCs are now sharing screenshots in group chats of Claude discouraging investment in open-source AI infra startups and models. Obviously there is an absolute EXPLOSION of pitches in inference companies, harness companies, RL-as-a-service companies, open-source tooling currently including Neolabs that plan to open source models as well. Now the obvious takeaway is: “Claude is biased against open source.” Who cares? The more unsettling take is: every major AI model has a worldview, and that worldview is becoming embedded in capital allocation. If Claude’s safety priors cause it to frame open-source AI as dangerous, hard to govern, or less fundable, it’s probably doing the same thing in enterprise buying workflows. Now investors and executives are obviously smarter, but “influence” just changes which risks get highlighted, which questions buyers should ask, and which vendors are suggested…..

A lot of VCs are unhappy because: 1. The field attracts many prestige seekers 2. Prestige seekers can’t generate alpha, they are wired to chase herds 3. Herd chasers are constantly behind, trying to catch up, and lose money because they jump from one trend to another and are unable to build the independent minded conviction that produces outliers. 4. Thus 90% of the 3,000 VC funds in the US are not really successful. They lose slowly and painfully over 10 years. However, VCs that are in it because they are genuinely curious and independent minded seem to love their job and do well.

@oakandbrine True. It's a tough concept to adapt into a trilogy, and honestly, a bit too complex for general audiences to follow.

@ashishdave inferno alone would cook, purgatory is where every adaptation would lose the room and paradiso is basically three hours of light getting brighter

Still wild that no one’s given Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy the Peter Jackson treatment yet. Nine circles of Hell. A poet guided by Virgil. The slow, brutal climb through Purgatory… then straight into Paradise. Imagine that scope, those visuals, and that mythic weight on the big screen the way LOTR delivered Middle-earth.

🦔AI startups with no revenue have found a way to inflate their valuations. They raise funding in two tranches at wildly different prices. Ineffable Intelligence raised $11 million from Sequoia at a $55 million valuation, then raised $1.1 billion from other investors at a $4 billion valuation weeks later. The headlines reported the $5.1 billion number. Over 63 AI neolabs are collectively valued at $300 billion and have raised $48 billion. My Take Sequoia gets a 70x markup on paper before the company does anything. The founder pitched AI in toasters with no deck and no memo, and raised $1.1 billion. One VC on the call said he left with more questions than answers. Sequoia invested anyway. This is how the bubble works. VCs inflate valuations with tranched rounds, startups use that headline number to recruit employees whose options price off the top, and those employees take on more risk for less upside without knowing the lead investor paid a fraction of the sticker price. One VC called it a "pump and dump" round. Another called it the "Sequoia Scam." Meanwhile enterprise customers are capping AI spend, communities blocked $130 billion in data center projects, and 16% of the public thinks AI will be positive. The Nasdaq dropped 4% this week because the market is starting to ask the same question the investors on that Zoom call should have asked. Where does the revenue come from? 63 neolabs valued at $300 billion and not one of them has an answer yet. Hedgie🤗

This is what’s causing Anthropic to aggressively beg for govt protection (see below). Customers are finding cheaper alternatives. Keeping employees requires continuing ultra-rich secondaries ($$$) that are dependent on revenue growth. When you can’t win on the field go to DC.

OpenAI Plans Delaying IPO Until 2027, Blames SpaceX zerohedge.com/technology/ant…

Stock market leverage in Asia is beginning to crack: Stock trade defaults reported by securities firms in Taiwan rose to $62 million so far in June, the highest monthly total since data began in 2019. A stock trade default occurs when investors who bought shares on margin fail to pay for those purchases, or when sellers fail to deliver the shares required to settle the trade. Trade defaults have soared +300% over the last 2 months and now exceed the 2021 record by ~20%. This comes as margin purchases have surged +160% over the last 12 months, to $19 billion, close to the all-time high set just before the 2000 Dot-Com crash. By comparison, margin debt has risen +94% in South Korea over the same period compared to +50% in the final 12 months of the Dot-Com bubble. Market leverage is out of control.