Deepesh Kiran Nanda

Merry Christmas to you all 🎅

In the soft noise of an ODI afternoon, Virat Kohli finds a hundred again. Cricket, like time, moves in circles. Today the world felt familiar.

Kavya and Nisha are on a summer break in Europe. Just now, at Nice Airport, they spot a kid playing the piano like Mozart. She turns to applaud—he’s already vanished, probably boarding a flight to fame. Watch the video. France, of course. 🎹✈️ #NiceAirport #TravelMagic

TP Solar Limited, Tata Power’s Solar Manufacturing Arm, has partnered with Guidance Tamil Nadu & DoTE to launch the Diploma in Renewable Energy, a pioneering initiative aimed at developing a skilled workforce for India’s fast-growing clean energy sector.

Was on @IndiGo6E 6E6591 from Tirupati to Hyderabad. We landed… or so we thought—big thud, then suddenly we’re airborne again. 20 mins of existential circling later, we land for real. Not a word from the cockpit. Silence isn’t always golden at 30,000 feet. #IndiGo #AviationSafety

Lap 47. Hamilton, in red, leading the Australian GP. On debut. With Ferrari. Chasing that elusive 8th. My heart skipped, my coffee went cold, and for a second, I believed in miracles. He finished 10th—but for that moment? Pure cinema. #F1 #Hamilton #Ferrari #AustralianGP

Shri Jamsetji Tata saw energy as a force for progress. Today, his vision drives us at @_TPREL_ —powering industries, uplifting communities, and shaping a sustainable future. Clean, abundant energy isn’t just our business; it’s our responsibility. #FoundersDay #RenewableEnergy

Partnering for Advanced Energy Storage Solutions at @IndiaEnergyWeek 2025, #ONGC signed an MoU with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (@_TPREL_) to collaborate on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)—a game-changer for India’s energy security & renewable integration. This partnership will drive: ✅ Utility-scale energy storage for grid reliability ✅ Renewable energy integration for a greener future ✅ EV charging infrastructure for sustainable mobility ✅ Microgrid & backup power solutions for energy resilience With #India aiming for 500 GW non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030, this strategic alliance reinforces ONGC’s commitment to a cleaner, more sustainable energy landscape. #IndiaEnergyWeek2025 #IEW2025 #YouAreEnergy #EnergyNowAndNext

A big step for @_TPREL_. Hon’ble CM Thiru @mkstalin inaugurated our 4.3 GW solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Tirunelveli—India’s largest. Powered by innovation, led by an 80% female workforce. The future starts here. #TataPower #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability

Writing this as an Indian who works on AI in leadership role for one the largest companies in the world (though strictly my personal opinion, but based on verifiable data). You heard it first here: —————————- First some more shocks: You heard DeepSeek. Wait till you hear about Qwen (Alibaba), MiniMax, Kimi, DuoBao (ByteDance) all from China. Within China, DeepSeek is not unique and their competition is close behind (not far behind). IMHO, China has 10 labs comparable to OpenAI/Anthropic and another 50 tier 2 labs. The world will discover them in coming weeks in awe and shock. AI is not hard (I am not high) ———————————— Ignore Sam Altman. Many teams that built foundation models are below 50 persons (e.g. Mixtral). In AI, LLM science part is actually quite easy. All these models are “Transformer Decoder only models”, an architecture that was invented in late 2017. There are improvements since then (flash attention, ROPE, MOE, PPO/DPO/GRPO), but they are relatively minor, open source and easy to implement. Since building foundation models is easy and Nvidia is there to help you (if not directly, then by sharing their software like “Megatron” that is assembly line to build AI models) there are so many foundation models built by Chinese labs as well as global labs. It is machines that learn by themselves…if you give them data & compute. This is unlike writing operating system or database software. Also, everyone trains on same data: internet archives, books, github code for the first stage called “pre-training”. What is part is hard then? ———————————- It is the parallel & distributed computing to run AI training jobs across thousands of GPUs that is hard. DeepSeek did lot of innovation here to save on “flops” and network calls. They used an innovative architecture called Mixture of Experts and a new approach called GRPO. with verifiable rewards both of which are in open domain through 2024. Also, there is lot of data curation needed particularly for “post training” to teach model on proper style of answering (SFT/DPO) or to teach them learn to reason (GRPO with verifiable reward). STF/DPO is where “stealing” from existing models to save cost of manual labor may happen. LLM building is nothing that Indian engineers living in India cannot pull off. Don’t worry about Indians who have left. There are plenty in the country as of today. Then why India does not have foundation models? ——————— It is for the same reason India does not have Google or Facebook of its own. You need to able to walk before you can run. There is no protected market to practice your craft in early days. You will get replaced by American service providers as they are cheaper and better every single time. That is not the case with Chinese player. They have a protected market and leadership who treats this skillset as existential due to geopolitics. So, even if Chinese models are not good in early days they will continue to get funding from their conglomerates as well as provincial governments. Darwinian competition ensures best rise to the top. Recall DeepSeek took 2 years to get here without much revenue. They were funded by their parent. Also, most of their engineers are not PHDs. There is nothing that engineers who built Ola/Swiggy/Flipkart cannot build. Remember these services are second to none when you compare them to their Bay Area counterparts. Also , don’t trivialize those services; there is brilliant engineering to make them work at the price points at which they work. Indian DARPA with 3B USD in funding over 3 years ———————- What we need is a mentality that treats this skillset as existential. We need a national fund that will fund such teams and the only expected output will be benchmark performance with benchmarks becoming harder every 6 months . No revenue needed to survive for first 3 years. That money will be loose change for GOI and world’s richest men living in India. @protosphinx @balajis @vikramchandra @naval

Friend asked, ‘Who watches Test matches these days?’ Today was a masterclass: Jaiswal’s ton, KL Rahul solid, and King Kohli’s sublime 30th hundred at Perth. His stroke play was pure art. Test cricket isn’t dead—this series is unmissable! #IndiaVsAustralia

Shri Deepesh Nanda, MD & CEO, Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd., addressing the gathering at the Rising Rajasthan Energy Pre-Summit, shared, “Rajasthan possesses a distinct advantage in the large-scale generation of solar, wind, and other emerging forms of renewable energy. For Tata Power, Rajasthan remains a key location for our current and future renewable energy projects due to its geographical and strategic advantages.” @RajCMO @BhajanlalBjp @Ra_THORe @OfficeofRR @kkvishnoibjp @KumariDiya @DrPremBairwa @rajgovofficial @BJP4Rajasthan @DIPRRajasthan @ficci_india @riicolimited @RajFound @FollowCII @my_rajasthan @investindia @lubindia @DcDmJaipur @nhmrjofficial @doitcraj @DstRajasthan @repc_in @HandloomState @agrdir @ahdrajasthan @rajeduofficial @jdajaipur @ajmerada @rhbgovofficial @istart_Raj @rsldc_official @mnreindia @MinOfPower @rrecl_official @JVVNLCCare @avvnlpro @ccc_jdvvnl @hlnagar @deepesh_nanda @_tprel_ @TataCompanies #RisingRajasthan #InvestorMeet #TATA #Energy

आगामी 'Rising Rajasthan' ग्लोबल इंवेस्टमेंट समिट 2024 के संदर्भ में आज ऊर्जा विभाग द्वारा आयोजित राइजिंग राजस्थान ग्लोबल इन्वेस्टमेंट प्री समिट में सहभागिता कर उपस्थित जनों को संबोधित किया। इस अवसर पर राज्य में नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के क्षेत्र में निवेश की संभावनाओं, हरित ऊर्जा के विकास, ऊर्जा क्षेत्र में आधुनिक तकनीकों के समावेश एवं राज्य सरकार की नवीन ऊर्जा नीतियों की विस्तृत जानकारी साझा की। इस समिट के माध्यम से हमारी सरकार राजस्थान में औद्योगिक विकास को बढ़ावा देने, रोजगार के नए अवसर सृजित करने, निवेश को आकर्षित करने एवं राज्य की अर्थव्यवस्था को मजबूत करने हेतु कृतसंकल्पित है। #आपणो_अग्रणी_राजस्थान #RisingRajasthan

We partnered with Toyota Lean Management Centre to train 46 senior managers in lean principles. Focused on safety, quality, delivery & cost, this 6-month program will drive a culture of problem-solving & continuous improvement at @_TPREL_. #LeanMindset #Sustainability #Leadership

Solar power will be the vast majority of power generation in the future

Breakfast this morning at Bangalore’s Vidyarthi Bhavan was pure charm! Tucked in Basavanagudi with flower markets all around, it’s a South Indian classic not to miss. #VidyarthiBhavan

Just a reminder - a promotional ad from the 80s when India was touring Australia. Do you see such ads anymore?

After a long wait, Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls is here! Back to his surreal towns, lost loves, dream-filled libraries—classic Murakami magic with cats, jazz, and that fine line between reality & unreality. Ready to get lost again! #Murakami on.ft.com/4fkBNig

Navjot Sidhu on how to read spinners and hit them out.