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"Build LLM in India" – Stop Lying to Yourselves and Fix VCs It’s been almost two years since @sama said, “you can try,” and someone from Mahindra Group responded with “challenge accepted.” Where are the models competing with OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepMind? In Nandan Nilekani's recent podcast with Nikhil Kamath, the tech lead at the government level bluntly admitted, "building LLMs is not for us." That’s a pathetic, defeatist mindset. @AravSrinivas is right. Look at the U.S.—their top tech companies and government work in tandem, nullifying benchmarks with every release. Here, all we do is talk. India seems content with the reputation of doing things cheaply while China leads the way in execution. Somehow only China can trigger us. @paraschopra, @championswimmer, @waitin4agi_—all on point. Talent isn’t the issue; it’s the lack of courage. We’re stuck hyping 10-minute deliveries and obsessing over tangible commodities. Most universities don’t even offer decent AI curricula. Mediocre college placements churn out graduates who’ve never seen money, so their only goal is stability. Ambition comes later—if at all. I can’t convince one friend to quit their job and build something meaningful because they draw the line at financial risk. It’s a vicious cycle. How do we fix this? Break the VC/investor trap. They won’t back ambitious founders unless they see "differentiators." What differentiators do OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepMind have? They’re all chasing benchmarks and mining the same gold. Meanwhile, our VCs keep betting on "build for India" garbage—e-com, UPI fintech, quick commerce. Enough! Start funding "build for the world." Indian Founders don’t need massive funding to start. $30-50k (₹25-40L) is enough for most ambitious founders to prove their commitment. But no one funds pre-seed at that scale. Show us you’re willing to disproportionately back talent. Stop forcing them to move to the U.S. just to get funded. Then, when they succeed, you call them "Indian founders" as if you had their back all along. We don’t lack ambition; we lack support. Back small, ambitious companies with compounding potential. That’s how you win.

a friend is hiring for her company. DM or reply if interested. tag people if they are looking out. RT for karma #FrontEnd #hiring #wix #devstudio

This is insane photorealism! @waitin4agi_ cooked a whole AAA Game entirely made out of Threejs! The shaders in this Project 11A is insane. Definitely better than Black Myth Wukong. Long live javascript

cred is the epitome of design in india and world @harish_io 🙏🏻

Mind blown by the visuals of The Age Bhaarat 🤯 Probably India's story of Black Myth Wukong. I love the aesthetics, the story telling and the details. The character usage, boss fights and the narration is spot on! @waitin4agi_ gotta up your game now! New standard in town. 11A misses out on depicting the cultural beauty and kinda looks ugly. It's pure bliss to watch this. Nonetheless, huge W for the gaming ecosystem for India. Keep em coming!! I've noticed something. To crack the "cultural" outlast for "religious" sentiments, they got bollywood to pacify it. Great move! Congrats @TaraGamingLtd @TheAgeOfBhaarat on the launch 🎉 How the heck did twitter not rage about it?

I don't buy the Soham's story on @tbpn. It's all crap! On the contrary, I kinda liked how he hacked his way out of companies. a) If you worked for any of these company the way he said he's dedicated. They would be very rewarding. A lot of startups pay handsome money especially YC companies. b) I'm ok with someone working in my company citing they're available partime. But they deliver. @Suhail would actual be fine with it. It's the incompetency that got him fired. So upskill maybe? c) It's ok to fuck up. It happened so publicly. So take the L. At one point says he had economic needs and later says he doesn't need the money(and doing it for fun). He's lying about this. @tbpn honestly asked really shit questions. Should have called out on his BS. But whatever he did, I think he has an answer for the YC question: Tell us about the time you broke a non-technical system and used it to your advantage.

New followers, Hello 👋 I'm the founder of Draftor (@draftor_ai). We're on a mission to make Draftor the best coding experience in the world. Building applications is faaar from solved and the entire ecosystem today, including Cursor, only solves 4% of the problem. I'm a general specialist. Really high standards for Design and Taste. Can do core coding and core designing (a rare breed indeed). We're a US-based company and we're actively raising right now (likely gonna close on a term sheet/s soon). We've narrowly missed out on YC batches 2 times and consistently rank in the top 5% and 10% of applicants. We're actively adding cracked developers to our (India) squad. A lean and mean team that ships at light speed. Our pay scale begins at ₹20 LPA and hikes for performant folks in 6 months! We want to compete with the world and change the way we code altogether.

Hey @dharmesh ! @p.naik_51448/launching-huduku-beta-f6305ca717d3">medium.com/@p.naik_51448/… We launched Huduku Beta 🎉 An AI workflow orchestration tool more about this on the blog! We are raising an Angel Round and have raised a few tiny cheques already. write to p.naik@huduku.io or DM on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/praveen-c-n…

🚨 People of Twitter Bengaluru, need help — Looking for a product promo creator Video for Product Hunt launch, so typically 60s to 100s video. Who I'm looking for: – Great story telling (plus if you understand developer tools) – Creative work something similar to Google, Apple promo videos(something minimalistic) – Use any tool you want, but the output videos needs to be 2k+ resolution – If you're a UI/UX person, can extent opportunity to work together full time/contract – 0yrs of experience. Solid skill is what I look for. Comment with proof of work. cc : @itsharshag @Dakshdesigns @markmeyourze @realvjy @pixelandpump please rt for reach 🙏🏻

a friend is hiring for her company. DM or reply if interested. tag people if they are looking out. RT for karma #FrontEnd #hiring #wix #devstudio

"Build LLM in India" – Stop Lying to Yourselves and Fix VCs It’s been almost two years since @sama said, “you can try,” and someone from Mahindra Group responded with “challenge accepted.” Where are the models competing with OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepMind? In Nandan Nilekani's recent podcast with Nikhil Kamath, the tech lead at the government level bluntly admitted, "building LLMs is not for us." That’s a pathetic, defeatist mindset. @AravSrinivas is right. Look at the U.S.—their top tech companies and government work in tandem, nullifying benchmarks with every release. Here, all we do is talk. India seems content with the reputation of doing things cheaply while China leads the way in execution. Somehow only China can trigger us. @paraschopra, @championswimmer, @waitin4agi_—all on point. Talent isn’t the issue; it’s the lack of courage. We’re stuck hyping 10-minute deliveries and obsessing over tangible commodities. Most universities don’t even offer decent AI curricula. Mediocre college placements churn out graduates who’ve never seen money, so their only goal is stability. Ambition comes later—if at all. I can’t convince one friend to quit their job and build something meaningful because they draw the line at financial risk. It’s a vicious cycle. How do we fix this? Break the VC/investor trap. They won’t back ambitious founders unless they see "differentiators." What differentiators do OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepMind have? They’re all chasing benchmarks and mining the same gold. Meanwhile, our VCs keep betting on "build for India" garbage—e-com, UPI fintech, quick commerce. Enough! Start funding "build for the world." Indian Founders don’t need massive funding to start. $30-50k (₹25-40L) is enough for most ambitious founders to prove their commitment. But no one funds pre-seed at that scale. Show us you’re willing to disproportionately back talent. Stop forcing them to move to the U.S. just to get funded. Then, when they succeed, you call them "Indian founders" as if you had their back all along. We don’t lack ambition; we lack support. Back small, ambitious companies with compounding potential. That’s how you win.

This is insane photorealism! @waitin4agi_ cooked a whole AAA Game entirely made out of Threejs! The shaders in this Project 11A is insane. Definitely better than Black Myth Wukong. Long live javascript

Draftor (@draftor_ai) is officially a US Company as of today! 🇺🇲🚀

New followers, Hello 👋 I'm the founder of Draftor (@draftor_ai). We're on a mission to make Draftor the best coding experience in the world. Building applications is faaar from solved and the entire ecosystem today, including Cursor, only solves 4% of the problem. I'm a general specialist. Really high standards for Design and Taste. Can do core coding and core designing (a rare breed indeed). We're a US-based company and we're actively raising right now (likely gonna close on a term sheet/s soon). We've narrowly missed out on YC batches 2 times and consistently rank in the top 5% and 10% of applicants. We're actively adding cracked developers to our (India) squad. A lean and mean team that ships at light speed. Our pay scale begins at ₹20 LPA and hikes for performant folks in 6 months! We want to compete with the world and change the way we code altogether.

Hey @dharmesh ! @p.naik_51448/launching-huduku-beta-f6305ca717d3">medium.com/@p.naik_51448/… We launched Huduku Beta 🎉 An AI workflow orchestration tool more about this on the blog! We are raising an Angel Round and have raised a few tiny cheques already. write to p.naik@huduku.io or DM on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/praveen-c-n…