Vasudeva Varma

IIIT-H alumnus Siva Reddy @sivareddyg , now a professor at @Mila_Quebec, is shaping the future of NLP. A 2026 Sloan Research Fellow, he shares his journey and what drives him. blogs.iiit.ac.in/siva-reddy/

The Panini Linguistics Olympiad (PLO) is open to students of Grades 6–12. 🔗 ltrc.iiit.ac.in/plo/

"...old Silicon Valley adage-if you aren’t paying you are the product. In AI, we’ve been paying steeply for the product, but we still are the product." openfuture.tenstorrent.com Powerful blog from @tenstorrent : wakeup call to build DPGs and Opensource platforms.

@devvarma opines that India must build cost-competitive, resilient cloud alternatives, but stresses AI is inherently global. He advocates sovereign cloud development while staying engaged with the worldwide AI ecosystem. tinyurl.com/mtra48ct

This new DeepMind research shows just how broken vector search is. Turns out some docs in your index are theoretically incapable of being retrieved by vector search, given a certain dimension count of the embedding. Plain old BM25 from 1994 outperforms it on recall. 1/4

mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1… significant correlation between frequent AI tool usage and lower critical thinking abilities

People ask me what's next. The GOAT points the way. Physical AI. Embodied Agents. Robotics. That's what's next.

what?? NVIDIA just dropped Project DIGITS, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer that’s small enough to look like a Mac Mini but packs 1,000x the power of your average laptop. Handles AI models with up to 200 BILLION parameters. This is incredible..

"Google launched Gemini 2.0, its new AI model for practically everything" theverge.com/2024/12/11/243…

With a fantastic line up of talks and discussions, looking forward to welcoming everyone interested (in person or online). To attend in person please register at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/silver-jubilee/ YouTube LiveStream links are provided on the posters.

As IIITH's Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) completes 25 years, its faculty reminisce on the incredible journey. youtu.be/sxYnmUUYSQE

LTRC is celebrating its silver jubilee with an exciting lineup of events, including a talk by Dr @SriramRajamani, Microsoft, on Improving Software Productivity by Combining LLMs with Static Program Analysis. Details at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/silver-jubilee/

IIITH’s Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) is celebrating its silver jubilee with an exciting lineup of events, including a talk on Generative AI, Linguistics and Indian Language NLP: A 25 Year Journey by @monojitchou, @mbzuai. Details at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/silver-jubilee/

LTRC is celebrating 25 years of language research with an exciting lineup of events. Don’t miss the interesting panel discussion on Linguistics in the era of LLMs on 7 December. Details of the silver jubilee at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/silver-jubilee/

IIITH’s Language Technologies Research Centre is celebrating 25 years of language research with an exciting lineup of events. A keynote by Dr. Srinivas Bangalore will delve into the Evolution of Language Processing: From glass box to black box. Details at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/silver-jubilee/

@rao2z Congratulations Rao garu. You may be one of the last humans to receive this award :)

I am gratified and delighted to hear that I am the recipient of the 2025 AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award “for broad and sustained engagement with the public on AI and its societal impact, developing widely used AI teaching materials, and being an inspirational educator, mentor and thought leader in AI.”🙏 To be told that you have a modicum of talent in the direction of your yearning is quite a beautiful thing.. 🤗 As part of the award, I am invited to give a talk, and I am contemplating titling it "T(w)eaching AI in the Age of LLMs" (More about the award here: aaai.org/about-aaai/aaa… ) cc: @SCAI_ASU @ASUEngineering @ASU @RealAAAI

IIITH’s Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) is celebrating 25 years of language research with an exciting lineup of events. The inaugural session includes a distinguished panel of speakers. Details at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/silver-jubilee/

TechForward, session 3 was at @Google Hyderabad. Good session with @ManishGuptaMG1, Amrutha Joshi, of Google and @devvarma of @iiit_hyderabad! Good connect for academics with the industry folks. LLMs are solely in the realm of big industry today, with academia watching in awe!

Wikipedia is one of humanity's greatest achievements: Seven million articles (in English), constructed by volunteers with a dedication to neutrality and objectivity. @dgardner defends it against attacks it has become "Wokepedia." open.substack.com/pub/dgardner/p…