Parth Batra

OK hear me out… IQ test before a driver’s license… and you can ONLY buy a car/bike that goes slower than your IQ Welcome! just solved road accidents!

Have reflected recently on attributes of who I’ve seen succeed professionally and three traits bubbled up clearly: • Intellect • Communication ability (written and spoken) • Work ethic (ability to put in hours consistently) These are required for any career you end up choosing. I’ve noticed that these traits vary within the same individual, and also that those who show all of these 3 are also the most fun to work with.

@himganj153 Shakespeare himself plagiarized a lot of his plays from Indian movies like Haidar and Omkara. That guy is a fraud.

As an Indian, I would ace Hot Ones. I just need to work on becoming a celebrity first.

having a gf is insane because it's literally unlimited chat with no token spend

@siddharthb_ So many words to say, we are just a wrapper around Gemma (or mistral) probably and should have no business being anywhere near 3bil usd MoUs.

Clarifying a few things, starting with the MoU. Are you taking taxpayer money? No. The MoU signed with the UP Government is structured as a public-private partnership. It does not involve any cost to the taxpayers of Uttar Pradesh. On the contrary, it brings investment into the state. The project will be executed in phases, with support from external investment partners. We have not taken any money, any GPUs, or any other form of support from the Government. The only part of this MoU that involves citizens is that they'll receive free access to AI, in their own language and through familiar interfaces, via AI Commons. Is your revenue ₹42.9 lakh? No. This is a bug in Google’s AI, which has confused Puch AI with another company called Pucho AI. The ₹42.9 lakh revenue figure belongs to Pucho AI, not Puch AI. Puch AI’s revenue is not public. What’s your valuation/annual revenue? Are you bootstrapped? We’ll share those details when the time is right. For now, as a private company, we’re not required to make our valuation or revenue public. But, if you’re curious, we're not bootstrapped. We’re a well-funded startup. Do you have a foundational model of your own? No, and we do not believe it is necessary for our mission to build one at this stage. What is your mission? We want to bring AI to everyone in India. Today, many people already use tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, but millions still cannot. Your parents, shopkeepers, drivers, and many others are being left out because AI, in its current form, is not built for them. What exactly is Puch AI doing? Puch AI is building the domestic consumer AI offering for the masses. We're bringing AI to people through simple, familiar interfaces like WhatsApp and voice calls, so that it is easy to use even for those who cannot type and prefer to interact through voice. Why don’t you have your own app? We understand the frustration people feel about this, and at times it is frustrating for us as well (currently fighting Meta on the WhatsApp policy). But so far, this has been a conscious choice. A new app becomes one more thing to learn and one more barrier for the millions of people who are currently not using AI. Try teaching your parents a new app! So are you asking me to not use ChatGPT or other AIs in the name of nationalism? No, not at all. People should use whatever AI works best for them. Our effort is simply to expand access to AI by bringing it to millions who, today, are unable to use the existing tools. Is Puch AI just a wrapper? Wrappers are generally defined as making API calls to AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. So no, Puch AI is not a wrapper. We do not use any APIs. We have built our entire infrastructure in-house on top of open-source models, and engineered it for the Indian context. However, if you define a wrapper as any company that does not have a foundational model pretrained from scratch, then yes, Puch AI is a wrapper. What is the point of Puch AI if you haven’t even built a model? The problem is data. Today, ChatGPT and Gemini are the default go-to AI apps for almost everyone in India who uses AI. As more people use them, these companies keep getting more and more data to improve their models. That data will never help Sarvam, BharatGen, or any other domestic AI model builder. More importantly, the bulk of India will end up accessing information through OpenAI or Google: their systems and their narratives that may ultimately be shaped by foreign actors. With Puch AI, we are trying to build sovereign distribution, so that India has at least one alternative, no matter how hopeless it may seem to compete with OpenAI or Google’s marketing. Puch AI seems relatively simple. I can build it in a weekend. Are you even doing anything? The choice of a simple interface is deliberate, but the underlying infrastructure is far from simple. Happy to give ₹50 lakh to anyone who can build it in a weekend, match our performance in Indian languages, and offer it for free at our consumer scale. How was your experience building for India? It is a very interesting situation, where the Government understands the importance and wants to do good, but it becomes difficult to do any good when so many bad actors are rooting for you to fail. Thousands of paid accounts are ready to try to shape narratives to fit their own political agenda. Everything from Community Notes to actual news articles and journalism gets weaponized against you, because your failure gets more views. Will you keep fighting? Not sure. Quite exhausted. Maybe this is the time to sign off.

thanks matrix multiplication! #hazel

@volklub Fell in love the moment I saw it in person! First impressions in person were everything - the stance, the finish, the cabin quality. Thoroughly impressed. HTK Opt Petrol IVT Morning Haze. ❣️

When i run out of my claude code usage limit, i switch to GLM-4.7/5 on claude code. Its so undistinguishable that i sometimes forget to switch back after claude limit reset.

> Cylinders shortage? - Hoarders are responsible. > Oxygen shortage? - Hoarders were responsible. > Roads not good? - Gadkari is responsible. > Infra bad? - Babus are responsible. > AQI bad? - My home AC and Car are responsible. > Water bad? - SOROS is responsible. > Misinformation in Media? - Opposition is responsible. > Food bad? - FSSAI is responsible. > Dirty rivers? - Public is responsible. Anyone who is not responsible at all?

went to attari border. Only campa was available as soft drink. how fitting.

OWN LANE OWN RACE OWN PACE

embarrassment/rejection is an underexplored emotion, go out there and make a fool of yourself.

Now that tariffs situation has gone to shit for US... how many days till they start levelling out parts of Iran?

Maybe the void isn't meant to be filled. Maybe it's just depth. Maybe it's space meant for oceans, not puddles. Maybe nothing was ever missing. Maybe I was just too vast to be contained by small comforts.

"All sins are attempts to fill voids"

grok is so fucking trash. they would be better off forking and finetuning a Open Chinese LLM

All those who get AI are building. Rest of us are headed to Delhi this week.

Humour is how you bleed without anyone seeing the wound.

We all felt it when Dostoevsky said: From the outside, you seem mature, with a philosopher's mind, but inside, you're just a child lost in sweet delusion.

people think a lot more than they talk, and feel a lot more than they admit.