Arsh Kumar Choudhary

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

I have been telling you, once the IIT/IISc/IISERs start offering confirmed seats to olympiad medalists in whatever college/dept they want AND confirmed jobs (after graduation) in whichever govt department they want, it is over for any other country hoping to be #1 in any olympiad.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.

This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.

Let me tell you what actually happened.

The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.

381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.

India sent five kids.

All five came back with gold.

Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.

We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)

That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.

Now here is what the exam actually was.

Two papers. Each five hours long.

The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.

The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.

That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.

Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.

HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.

Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.

Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.

In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.

Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.

Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.

So who built this.

The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.

They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.

The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.

Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.

This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.

The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.

That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.

But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.

That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.

So yes, be proud. Loudly.

HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.

But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.

I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.

But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.

Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

[Deedy @deedydas]

India was a tied #1 at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) this year with 5/5 Golds.

I analyzed every single medalist upto 2021: 70% of them in the US!

Many of these kids will likely go to MIT or IIT and then leave too. The brain drain is very real.

[Reshad Rahman @ReshadRahman]

LIONEL MESSI, THANK YOU FOR EXISTING IN OUR LIVES. https://t.co/PgY2UJdJ16

[Mod @CFCMods]

Lionel Messi crying tears of JOY at full time, I love you. https://t.co/sW6L7Eauzi

[Jean-Rémi King @JeanRemiKing]

We’re happy to announce 2 releases today:
- 🧠Brain2qwerty v1 is published at @NatureNeuro
- 🚀 Brain2Qwerty v2 is now publicly released

Explore how we decode sentences from non-invasive brain recordings: https://t.co/IdR6gK2hcd

Links:
📄v1 Nature Neuro: https://t.co/wnRjc9W9gI
📑v2 Meta preprint: https://t.co/oSfLOQFcvg
💻Code: https://t.co/Xbe0XWfWQL
📊Data: https://t.co/SCBbs4AhTg
📝Blog: https://t.co/15RvsAaXlH
🧵Thread: https://t.co/d8FJrVyDut

[Deedy @deedydas]

Telegram is the only bootstrapped 1B+ active user product in the world.

– ~30-40 “core” employees
– $30B valuation
– 1.3B monthly active users
– Founder is the 2nd most decorated International Olympiad winner of all time with 7 medals (4G/3S/0B) across math (IMO) and cs (IOI)
– ~$1.5-2B revenue last year, with a business across advertising (14%), subscriptions (26%), crypto (34%) and more
– HQd in Dubai and domiciled in the British Virgin Islands

It’s the only business to be self-funded and needed the fewest users to get to global scale.

We talk a lot about 1 person $1B companies but Telegram is a 30 person $30B company!

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🧤 Orlando Gill vs. Germany:

· 6 saves
· 4 saves from inside the box
· 1 punch
· 3 high claims
· 2 penalty shootout saves

[Arsh Kumar Choudhary @arshu_30]

Paraguay won ⚽🤣 those people must be hiding somewhere

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

Whatever happens in the penalty shootout, props to Paraguay, Gustavo Alfaro and his team. 👏🇵🇾

People were disrespecting South American teams and calling Copa America "Mickey Mouse tournament" 🤣

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

Whatever happens in the penalty shootout, props to Paraguay, Gustavo Alfaro and his team. 👏🇵🇾

People were disrespecting South American teams and calling Copa America "Mickey Mouse tournament" 🤣

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Paraguay's man of the match against Germany

[Arsh Kumar Choudhary @arshu_30]

Whatta tremendous game just wooooow
Paraguay through
Hats off to the Orlando Gill ⚽⚽⚽
Germany knocked out
#fifa #germany #paraguay

[Charles Maddock @charles_maddock]

New LLM benchmark just dropped

[Deedy @deedydas]

Bytedance is dropping the best video gen model in the world in early July: Seedance 2.5!

The video below (audio on) is the launch video from their Volcano Engine conference this week. It cements China’s absolute dominance in video.

— 2x’d generation length of all previous models to 30s, with audio + 4k video
— >5x’d reference images / audio / video to 50
— Allows localized editing (specific characters, closing, detail), will come with copyright filter

Seedance 2 is already the #1 video model and does a whopping $2B in ARR, in a mere 4.5mos! At the current pricing of $2.5/15s, that implies >3.3M hours of video (!) have been generated. That’s 3x every feature film ever made and dozens of Netflixes. Only 3 US AI startups make more revenue.

We are 2x’ing realistic video gen length every 6mos.
— May 2025: Veo 3 does audio + video for the first time, 15s
— Jan 2026: Kling 3 does 15s
— Feb 2026: Seedance 2 does 15s, big quality bump
— July 2026: 2.5 will do 30s
In 18mos, entire music videos will be oneshotted by AI.

China continues to extend its lead on video models vs America.

[Arsh Kumar Choudhary @arshu_30]

@twtayaan There's a university in which CSE batch size is close to 7-8k 🐸🐸🐸

[Arsh Kumar Choudhary @arshu_30]

Lol

[Itamar Golan 🤓 @ItakGol]

If you come from the future you can apply

[Shub @shub0414]

If I had 6 months to become an AI Infrastructure Engineer.

I’d do this.

Stage 1 — Linux + Networking
Processes, memory, GPUs, sockets, HTTP, TCP/IP basics.

Stage 2 — Python + Backend
Async Python, FastAPI, queues, concurrency fundamentals.

Stage 3 — GPU Fundamentals
CUDA basics, VRAM, batching, quantization, throughput.

Stage 4 — LLM Inference
vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, speculative decoding, KV caching.

Stage 5 — Distributed Systems

Load balancing, queues, retries, autoscaling, distributed workers.

Stage 6 — AI Serving
Model APIs, streaming responses, rate limiting, observability.

Stage 7 — Data Pipelines
Kafka, Airflow, ETL pipelines, vector indexing.

Stage 8 — Kubernetes + Cloud
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP basics, infra automation.

Stage 9 — Monitoring + Reliability
Prometheus, Grafana, tracing, AI cost monitoring.

Stage 10 — Real AI Systems
Deploy scalable chat apps, RAG pipelines, inference clusters.
Stage 11 — Open Source
Contribute to inference tooling or AI infra projects.

Stage 12 — Apply
AI Infra Engineer, Platform Engineer, ML Systems Engineer.

AI apps go viral.

AI infrastructure prints money.

[pulkit mittal @pulkit_mittal_]

RAG is the new CRUD.

these days you’ll find a similar RAG langchain project in every final year student’s CV.

[Nathan Lambert @natolambert]

"Knowledge wants to be free" is an unofficial Interconnects mission statement, courtesy of @xeophon

[Arsh Kumar Choudhary @arshu_30]

Meta? 👀 Anthropic fs ig Meta has a chance as well due to their investment in the superintelligence kab

[Kashaf @noor36758]

Who do you think will win the AGI race and reach AGI first?