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@edge_of_power Comparing: $NBIS is to $IREN , same as comparing AWS to DigitalOcean ( or BlueHost) . I do respect $DOCN

$NBIS is one of the biggest beneficiaries of $NVDA earnings. He’ll get the newest technology and the clients to test it. Jensen’s lab, so to speak. And this hike speaks volumes about demands

Every Indian #football lover knows the answer . Do you think #viratkohli as a #cricket ambassador, will he be able to fill a single stadium outside #india, like #messi or #cr7 ?? Cricket is a lovely game but no match for #soccer in a lot of areas. And india's football team is good enough to compete

Cape Verde holding Spain and Curaçao reaching the World Cup stage should make every Indian football lover ask a fair question: why not us? There is no single answer. We need deeper grassroots football, more trained coaches, regular youth leagues and patient club pathways. Passion must become a pipeline. #IndianFootball

Somehow being in Silicon valley or a high paying wall street job is supposed to make your pain special ... we've been at the altar of worshipping these mega-rich companies and their unimaginable paychecks . It feels like superficial journalism

@EmilyDreyfuss Have you guys published an interview with a hotel cleaner to find out about their 10 years of work to let the world know how horrible it feels to be inside?

@deb0smit @7negiashish Every sports body , including #FIFA #IOC has been corrupt. That doesn't stop the show.

@7negiashish If this model is allowed within the next 6 months, India has a chance. Otherwise forget it. The grassroot development model is going to take at least 20 years for India to be successful. Also the corruption has to be removed from AIFF.

If FIFA decides to expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams, then the AFC should receive at least 11.5 qualification slots. With Asia's population, investment in football, improving competitiveness and the growing number of nations capable of competing at World Cup level, a proportional increase in AFC representation would be justified.

#India #Football

If you're wondering why #India is not in the #FIFA #WorldCup

@mehulmpt This is the high watermark of innovation that can be achieved. /s

This account on Instagram has 3 million followers. The news article suggests using VPN to access Mythos bypassing the US national requirement as a “jugaad”. What was the editor thinking before publishing this story?

@thegck @EmanAbio 2025 they released the gaming console in Basecamp dubai. Leadership lost credibility

@EmanAbio Looking forward to hearing more on the gaming side 🫡

@ROOZVA @Aparna129VA A reminder to myself- why i vote independent

Virginians simply can’t afford Abigail Spanberger’s policies. We were promised “affordability,” but all we’re getting is higher taxes and less economic opportunity.

"IT" - is a pretty uncool phrasing for a geek. No self respecting PhD will call himself IT. Yet thats the label most apt for this sector - because no cool innovation came out. In hardware, networking, software, OS, databases , middleware- ive been in this space for decades and i have seen maybe 1 or two examples of tools ( not talking about people)

It is disheartening to watch India’s IT veterans fumble AI this badly. They had the capital. They had the head start. They had every reason to see this coming. And even now, they are out here explaining why India should not build frontier models. Man, this just hurts.

To a large extent Indian talented youth has lost its confidence due to elders destructive influence. We need some trail blazers who are prepared to say FU in their faces . The CBSE teenage ethical hackers proved we have talent. And indians should stop saying IIT in every debate about talent - thats a loser mentality, believe me.

Frankly, the problem in India is the old guys want power in their hands and don't want to take risks. All the frontier labs have young risk-taking guys building these things. In India we don't have a talent problem, we simply have the trust issues. Old leads don't trust young guns and don't want them to take risks. Sooner or later, we'll have another tech debt.

I've tried to use Sarvam . Its good. But no guarantee of market ( or long term success). I work w/ AI translation apps. India needs 4 more iterations similar to Sarvam. The law of startups is 70% fail - so the funding must go on .. failure shouldn't be a show stopper. But with Sarvam Gov should fund it further and use it in schools and offices. Another challenge. Gemini just released LiveTranslate in preview. Now that can be an yet another challenge to Sarvam.

@shashankmodi_ I have hope in Sarvam.

@shashankmodi_ @kunalvg There were no IDEs or databases or S/w tools coming from India either. So why should that change- will they suddenly wake up- past performance is a good indicator

@kunalvg genuinely, this is me asking every single day why there’s no llm in india - forget it being among the best 5, there’s none even recognised widely if there is. disappointing.

@kunalvg @bashxbt TCS is an employment exchange. True. Lets not pretend its tech innovation

@bashxbt We need them. They are large employers of knowledge workers. For this very reason, they could have been proactive. Alas!

@Rationalop9 @kunalvg Your last sentence really hits it hard.

@kunalvg That's not how it works. An ecosystem is built around a culture. Americans have downstream effects of the first amendment. It gives rise to a society and industry that attracts those ppl who value freedom and merit. In India we come from over parenting and offense taking.

@kunalvg 'Sovereign Indian tech' was always a stretch - did they create Java, J2ee?? It was always the lowest level of intellectual property or output. A fallacy to call it innovation back then 2000-2025.

Dude , tl;dr yourself. This is bordering on verbal diarrhea. Dont fall into the same desi style : its like the 4 hrs of dhurandar or any Indian movie- instead of leaving some parts unsaid you have to explain each and everything.. leaving nothing to imagination. The whole plot needs to be explained?

I use 1B+ tokens a month on AI and not one rupee of it stays in India. That, not the Fable ban, is the real sovereignty problem. A sovereign model is the one layer of this entire stack we could have cloned in a weekend. Weights are downloadable; Deepseek, Kimi and GLM already proved frontier-grade intelligence is a few thousand GPU-hours and an RLHF pipeline away. The layers underneath the model - power, copper, fabrication, ports, rare earths - are where India has ZERO position, and no amount of national pride changes that. Quick recap for anyone who missed it: on 12 June the US Commerce Department slapped an export-control order on Fable 5 and Mythos 5, three days after Anthropic shipped them. It covered every foreign national, including Anthropic's own non-US staff, so the only compliant move was to kill both models globally. India is reportedly their 2nd largest market, which is why the good folks on X went crazy. 5 things are true at once, and the panic flattens them into a single grievance: 1. This is bullish for open weights, not bearish. Take one frontier lab off the board and demand doesn't vanish; it reroutes to the next lab on the pareto frontier of cost x performance. I run 10x the token volume on Deepseek as I do on Opus despite paying for the $100 Claude plan, because it gets me ~90% of the output at a 1000x less the cost. Pure Jevons paradox: token cost falls 100x, usage spikes >100x, the price elasticity of intelligence is effectively infinite. The VCs aren't the subsidy anymore; the heavy users are the revenue. 2. Every input I pay for sits outside the country. Power from US gas, solar, wind. GPUs the Taiwanese built from rare earths which China rations. Substrates and optics from Japan. Racks built by Dell and SMIC. Data centres in Texas and Virginia. My AI bill has the lowest domestic value capture of anything I buy - pure dollar outflow that leaves and never comes back. 3. Blaming Infosys and TCS for not building a lab is lazy. Vishal Sikka pointed Infosys at roughly this future and got pushed out in 2017; the forward-leaning bet left with him. With hindsight it's one of the most expensive governance calls in Indian corporate history. But it's a symptom of the incentive structure, not the cause. 4. Even with a sovereign model, it wouldn't matter. Under 100 million Indians have ever used an AI that Google doesn't serve them for free. The number willing to pay tens of dollars a month is a few million. You cannot underwrite frontier-scale capex against that base. 5. This is a sequencing problem decades deep. While the Dutch were spinning ASML out of Philips with Carl Zeiss optics, HMT was importing watch movements from Citizen and Seiko because we couldn't cut our own steel accurately. My grandparents in Calcutta queued hours, several times a week, for baby formula at the same time Shenzhen was growing its economy ten-thousand-fold in 40 years by letting free markets run; we spent the same decades dismantling a licence raj that still isn't gone.

@aviralbhat Tl;dr

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if a team like Japan reached the World Cup semi-finals, or even the final. After the Netherlands scored their second goal, I was just sitting there waiting for Japan to equalize. I was convinced they would come back at any moment. Even after the clock passed the 85th minute, I still felt they were going to find a way back into the game. There’s something unusual about this team. When they defend, it feels like all 11 players are defenders. When they attack, it feels like all 11 players are attackers. The same applies in midfield. They’re organized in a way that would terrify any opponent, and the understanding between the players is incredible.