Tripatha Ganga

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

a person consumed by survival has zero cognitive bandwidth left for "self-improvement."

IT Industry Wants to Be the World’s “AI Coolies” 1. IIT Prof slams IT leaders for saying India need not build own AI. 2. Vishal Sikka: The idea that India should let other nations build AI – is a stupid idea. 3. Time for Govt to force IT sector’s “skin in the game.” INSIGHTS: IIT Delhi Prof Hits Out a. Yesterday, Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of Infosys, wrote an opinion piece arguing that India does not need to lead in advanced AI models and should instead focus on using AI to improve human productivity. b. Padma Bhushan Nandan Nilekani and Padma Vibhushan Narayana Murthy, both influential voices in government tech policy, have consistently spoken against aggressive AI infrastructure investments in India. c. Dr. Manabendra Saharia, IIT Delhi AI professor and former NASA researcher, hit out against Nilekani’s views on X. He said that a country capable of developing nuclear weapons and achieving a moon landing can also build its own proprietary AI models. “But for that, we must first dream of becoming more than AI coolies,” he remarked. d. The professor also shared a slide on X from his presentation on their Geospatial AI foundation model. He highlighted that only the Indian government and NVIDIA supported the project (after seeing initial results) – “the kind of support which should have come from Indian IT behemoths.” e. As a stark reminder, an evidence exhibit presented yesterday in a U.S. court (Elon Musk vs. OpenAI) showed that in 2015, 7 pioneers had come together to invest in OpenAI: Sam Altman (OpenAI) Greg Brockman (Stripe) Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) Peter Thiel (PayPal) Jeff Bezos (Amazon) Jessica L (Y Combinator) Infosys At that point, Infosys threw out Vishal Sikka for his daring vision. Exactly 11 years later, with AI now a reality, Infosys and other IT slave farms are still resisting technological change just like the old days. IT Blindspot: 70-Hr Coolies a. The headline of Dr. Saharia’s PPT slide says (see pic): “Indian industry leaders have a defeatist mindset. IITs must take the lead in developing foundational AI technology.” b. While Indian IT is still busy with share buybacks and promoting 70-hour workweeks, the government’s IndiaAI Mission (₹10,000+ cr) is already moving forward without industry support. c. Over 38,000 GPUs are empanelled with NVIDIA partnership to provide cheap compute power to Indian AI researchers, startups, and academia. Public-private clusters are live or deploying. d. IndiaAI Mission received 500+ proposals for AI foundation models. 12 selected teams are getting government support. These include: Sarvam AI, BharatGen (IIT Bombay-led multilingual model), ZenteiQ, Genloop, etc. e. India has the government readiness, high-end academic pool, the engineering talent pipeline, and the data moat (Indic languages, satellite imagery, sectoral datasets). What is missing is industry support. AI Sovereignty: Skin in the Game a. Earlier this year at the AI Impact Summit, Vishal Sikka said: “God has not pre-ordained that only certain people can build foundation models, and Indians are not one of them.” He continued: “India has 18% of the world’s population. We have to build our own large-scale AI systems instead of living with permanent foreign dependence.” b. To move from a “labour arbitrage” to “IP ownership” economy, India must draw inspiration from how the U.S. and China are forcing their private companies to have “skin in the game.” c. The U.S. Playbook: The U.S. has imposed restrictions on its companies to profit from selling advanced AI chips (like H200 GPUs), hardware, and design tools. The Trump administration sees advanced AI compute as a national security asset that must be denied to rivals. d. The China Playbook: China is aggressively controlling IP flows and preventing AI tech and talent to leave the borders. Earlier this week, Chinese government blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Chinese agentic AI startup. The startup’s founders were detained in mainland China. Endquote: Dr. Sikka @ AI Summit संप्राप्ते सन्निहिते काले नहि न रक्षति दुकृजनकरणे “When it’s a life-and-death situation, decisive action, and not intellectual posturing, will save you.” – Bhaj Govindam by Adi Shankaracharya, 8th century @arabicatrader

Thank god I am purabiya Brahmin 🫩🍷.

This is so cute Aatmanirbhar paki foids

"ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF LESBIANISTAN"

All that these people can do is to come up with new ideas to torture people. This country is a literal dystopia.

More like a hyena that attacks only the weak (taxpayers).

@hindoozoomer We need wiki page for funny Marathi surnames 😋💀

Marathi surnames are so peak

Damn china must be most backward place in the world with government planting trees and all.

50 shades of poonam

"Caste pride" is for sale and the price is 80 lakhs. Punjiwaad victory over jatiwaad.

Kids

3 letter agent glow so bright

@ChandKParChalo @Netra_sharma0 I am sorry miss I agree with you whatever you are saying 😋😻 x.com/Netra_sharma0/…

@ChandKParChalo @Netra_sharma0 you absolute fem cvck it was genuine racism not ur sexsux brainrot. Hmm maybe being that beautiful has you thinking everything is about wanting you.

"Crave our daughters" Couldn't be any more cringe. These are the people you're fighting for. These sub 60 IQ Biharis harm us more than outsiders.

गाजा के भूखे मासूम बच्चों का मज़ाक़ बनाने वाले नामर्द ने फाइनेंसियल क्राइसिस के चलते सुसाइड कर लिया है ? काश इसकी माँ ने इसे अच्छे संस्कार दिए होते तो रोना न पड़ता, दुख दर्द पीड़ा

How i feel after giving a speech on professionalism & humanity

Hindoo Indians are so buckbroken they think this post is an own. Gods, niqqas need to touch grass. Most cultures aren't male feminists and nobody thinks this is own outside your echo sher sherni chamber.

Never forget the fact that USSR collapsed because Russian ethnonationalists wanted a fascist empire instead of a union that 'appeased' minorities. This led to a domino effect, where minorities also wanted to leave the union. We are going to see a similar story in India.