Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳

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[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

Brilliantly summarised @sunandavashisht .. at least from the perspective of tech algorithms n addictive nature of it !

[Sunanda Vashisht @sunandavashisht]

[Thread] Invention of Social Media democratized discourse. It was much needed. Legacy media was guarded by old boys club and it was impossible to break into it. Still is. So SM brought in a whiff of fresh air.

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

English definition “A fable is a short, fictional story designed to teach a moral lesson”

And it proved , the AI model was available for “short” time 😀. And it taught a big lesson on how access/sale of frontier models n hardware are going to shape the future.
#IYKYK #Fable

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Remembering Veer Savarkar on his Jayanti. His courage and patriotism will always inspire people. His intellect and emphasis on social reform are also noteworthy.

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

The Google Threat Intelligence Group has detected the first known instance of a threat actor using an AI-developed zero-day exploit in the wild. While the attackers planned a wide-scale strike, our proactive counter-discovery may have prevented that from happening. This finding is part of our new report on AI-powered threats.

[Yogesh @yogesharma92]

Today is Maharashtra Day 🧡

And no, Maharashtra is not just Mumbai and Pune.

🏔️ Nashik → wine capital of India, Sula vineyards, Kumbh Mela

🌊 Konkan → Sindhudurg fort, Alibaug beaches, best seafood in India

🐯 Nagpur → orange capital, Tadoba tigers, heart of India literally

🏯 Aurangabad → Ajanta Ellora caves, Bibi Ka Maqbara, medieval history

🌾 Kolhapur → Mahalakshmi temple, royal legacy, Kolhapuri chappal

💧 Satara → Kaas Plateau, valley of flowers, Western Ghats magic

🏹 Ahmednagar → Chh Shivaji Raje’s early battles, Bhandardara dam, history in every stone

⚡ Dhule → gateway to North Maharashtra, raw and underrated

🌿 Gadchiroli → densest forests, tribal culture, untouched India

Which district are you from? 👇

Jai Maharashtra 🧡

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

This is freaking awesome 🤩 .. swarm intelligence engine that takes things to next level .. amazing 🤩
#Mirofish

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 BIG! Lakshya Sen storms into the FINAL of the prestigious All England Open Badminton Championships, defeating reigning world medallist Victor Lao 🔥

— Chak De India 🇮🇳

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Ok, so for anyone who's upset about the @SarvamAI models not beating GPT5/other 1T parameter models, my response: are you f kidding me? A year ago you were crying about India not having our own LLMs trained from scratch. The team has launched 14 amazing products in 14 days and it took years of work, each. And they span text, OCR, voice, LLMs, STT, hardware! I mean hardware! Edge models! Celebrate. They are just getting started. Sure, I am biased as their first investor, but we invested because we thought so highly of them. Of course we are biased. And the odds were enormous. But the opportunity is enormous-er :-) and these guys are absolute killers, and the team hunts! I haven't chatted with @pratykumar today but I heard someone say he saw that PPT for today's LLM launch session literally ON THE STAGE for the first time and laid it all out without a prompter. You can only do it when you know your material cold, and your heart is 100% living and breathing this stuff. Just incredible, congrats to everyone at @SarvamAI. Start of an era.

[Rujuta Diwekar @RujutaDiwekar]

The S that kids need to avoid in meals is not salt or sugar, it’s screen. Avoid that and the kids will do just fine.

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

@yajnshri @grok

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

@IrishRail @dazmoriarty @IrishRail Have you considered a skip-stop pattern during the peaks? E.g., one service stops every 3 stations for faster trips from outer stations, another all-stations local to spread the load and ease the congestion. Old practise across the world .

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

Amazing milestone @SarvamAI .. 👏🏼

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Drop 1/14: We pulled off a first of its kind. The budget speech by the Finance Minister was live telecast in multiple languages on @republic. Reached millions of homes with a latency under 2 minutes. https://t.co/EgGp4CJ1On

[Tushar Gupta @Tushar15]

Surprisingly, this tweet didn't get much attention. The capacity is 35-40 per cent of India's crude consumption in one day, but more importantly, will save quite a lot in logistics (time and cost). For all the hate against Adani, these developments aren't celebrated enough.

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

ZERO RHINOS POACHED IN 2025

You heard it right, ZERO rhinos have been poached in Assam in 2025, continuing our excellent conservation efforts and maintaining our streak of protecting Assam's pride.

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

@arvidkahl Tiny AI pocket lab https://t.co/7df59FxrT8. Eagerly waiting for launch @TiinyAILab

[Ved Malik @Vedmalik1]

@mjavinod Amazing ignorance of national security & defence planning at senior political level. One reason: most of them have kept themselves & family safe, far away from armed forces and defence issues.

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

The impact of changing technology landscape.. a bit sad news though ..

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen's plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker's 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its home country.

Volkswagen warned of potential production cuts last year, as it faced shaky demand in Europe and China, its biggest market, as well as higher tariffs that have crimped sales in the United States.

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[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

One of the best flights /airlines that was there at that time. Even by today’s standards it was one of the best. Had travelled both in domestic n international, I still don’t believe that Mr @TheVijayMallya would harm own airlines.

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

Call him controversial, call him corrupt but when Kingfisher Airlines was flying, it set a benchmark.

It wasn’t just an airline; it was a vision. Mr. Mallya’s strategy and service were leagues ahead of what we accept today.

The real decline began with monopolies IndiGo being the prime example turning air travel into a bare-minimum experience.

You may disagree with Mallya, and that’s fair, but denying that Kingfisher offered a far superior product than today’s airlines would be dishonest.

India would love to see Kingfisher back💯
@TheVijayMallya #Kingfisher

[Ashwin अश्विन 🇮🇳 @TechNatureAsh]

Autonomous agentic AI , using chaining tasks at unmatched speed & scale, it bypasses defenses with minimal human input, acting as an entire team of experienced hackers. Major traditional defenses will collapse without strong counter-AI integration. Exciting , scary and optimistic 😀

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents.

Read more: https://t.co/VxqERnPQRJ