CricBaba

startups + tech + cricket... weakly held strong opinions

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

People talk about spirit of the game
.. I just want to know what spirit umpire was having during this game

#IPL2021 #RCBvsPBKS #PBKS #RCB #dugout #hotstar

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@kushalbhagia @cosmicanuj Let's begin

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@johnvirality Cluely

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

7 new exciting AI programs and fellowships you might have missed in June 2026:

1.) Listen Labs Future Founder Program - @ListenLabs
SF based, for engineers who dream to start a company. Full-time role with salary + benefits, real product ownership, mentorship, workshops with investors from Pear VC, Sequoia, Ribbit and Conviction, free Listen credits to validate ideas and a small elite cohort.

apply:- https://t.co/pO9Egy4DDl

2.) Anthropic Claude Corps - @AnthropicAI
12-months fully funded fellowship placing early-career builders inside nonprofits to ship real AI tools. $85K + benefits, CodePath training, Anthropic mentorship. 18+ under 2 yrs experience, any background. US work authorization required. Cohort 1 closes July 17.

apply: https://t.co/z3TU94MrrC

3.) Andreessen Horowitz FDE Fellowship - @a16z
8-week cohort for forward-deployed engineers and applied AI leaders shipping inside live enterprises. Title doesn't matter, mindset does. SF hub, starts July. Closes June 26 at midnight PT.

apply: https://t.co/4BEHgLjO4V

4.) Vals AI Fellowship - @ValsAI
3–6 months on the hardest open problems in AI evaluation. $1K–2.5K/week, unlimited API credits, GPU budgets, frontier model access, real eval challenges from labs and the Fortune 500. Remote or SF. Closes June 30.

apply: https://t.co/P1Ye3gKo44

5.) Perplexity Research Residency - @perplexity_ai
for exceptional researchers from any discipline: physicists, quants, cognitive scientists. $220K annualized base, full benefits, visa sponsorship support. In-person SF or Palo Alto. Rolling.

apply: https://t.co/47Gdj9d4n6

6.) DoorDash Research Fellowship - @DoorDash
3 months (extendable to 6) on applied ML in local commerce. Pick the problem, own the direction, publish or ship. Dedicated compute, housing stipend, Summer + Fall 2026 cohorts.

apply: https://t.co/SSQXU7uiSn

7.) Amplify Partners Writing Fellowship - @AmplifyPartners
3 paid months for technical people (devs, researchers) who want to research and write in a focus area, with hands-on editing. Great fit for recent grad students or developers between things.

apply: https://t.co/RJmXYVFrMc

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[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@ashitapatodia love the non chalant response of thanks with a typo

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@askOkara Okara

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@blvckledge Swipe

[ranjan_raj @ranjan_vittal]

Today, I'm thrilled to announce Pramaana's $27M seed, led by @khoslaventures.
The foundational domains that hold the world together: tax, law, finance, healthcare; all run on certainty. Probabilistic AI can't give them that. We’ve been asked to accept wrong answers with AI as ‘hallucinations’, while in traditional software terms, it’s just a bug. And a wrong answer in such mission-critical domains is more than just a bug, it's a liability that could have catastrophic impact.

We built Pramaana to deliver a 100% trustable experience to the domains that run on certainty: AI that is provably correct, not probabilistically correct. We turn statute and regulation into machine-verifiable code, so every output ships with mathematical proof of correctness. Our mission is to make AI take ownership of it’s work.
Pramaana in Sanskrit stands for “means of valid knowledge”, and we’re going to achieve that by formalizing the world’s knowledge.

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@Bhanu_R780 Viru pa

[Real Insight @real_insight_1]

China is dangerously obsessed with India.
Every anti-India hate campaign starts on Chinese social media.
Read the full thread to understand.

1/n
China hired vloggers to visit Bangladesh, shoot videos, label them as India and spam them online.
Those videos get a huge engagement.

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@jerxn_ @take_lite_pa Yup , like the comparison doesn't even make sense

[Loveena🕉️ @loveena_joshi06]

Nothing is impossible!

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@sidin @udupendra We missed these bangers

[Bhavyam Arora @AroraBhavyam]

Techstars closed. a16z closed. YC closed....

But if you're an early-stage founder who still
hasn't applied anywhere, here's what's open:

- @join_ef Bangalore closes Jun 22, London closes June 21

- @betaworks Camp rolling, open now
(up to $500k, AI-native, NYC, 12 weeks)

- @hf0 rolling - $1M uncapped SAFE for 5%
(technical/repeat founders only, SF)

- @AlchemistAcc rolling - 6 months
(B2B enterprise only)

- @southpkcommons Fall apps open this summer
($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed next round)

- @AIGrant rolling - $250k SAFE + $350k +
Azure credits (AI researchers + builders)

- @allen_ai rolling - up to $600k + $1M
compute credits (AI-first, technical founders)

- @ConvictionVC Embed rolling - $150 - 250k +
$1M + credits (B2B SaaS and infra)

- @joinstationf rolling - backed by OpenAI +
Anthropic + Google

- @Soma_Capital Fellowship rolling - up to $1M
uncapped SAFE, zero equity

- @NVIDIA Inception rolling - zero equity,
GPU credits + $100k AWS (stack this)

- @msft4startups Founders Hub rolling - zero
equity, up to $150k Azure credits

- @100X_VC bi-annual - India-based founders
only (₹1.25cr via iSAFE)

- @EWOR_official rolling - €150k, Europe-first
(extremely selective)

Follow @arorabhavyam for weekly content
around founders, startups and AI! 🫡

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@dhwaninanavati Imho, It just means models are getting better.

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@TVMohandasPai Respectfully, AI wrapper startups are not AI companies. Can you give a breakup of how many infra companies exist in this portfolio

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

@ziwenxu_ Ah shit, here we go again

[Olly Hudson @oliverwhudson]

If you run Meta ads, this is the only video on Andromeda you need to watch.

We sat down with a Creative Strategist at Meta, someone who works directly with the top 1% of disruptor brands on the platform.

Here's our full conversation

00:00 Working with Disruptor brands at Meta
02:34 What is Andromeda?
09:34 Andromeda + GEM working together
11:15 The shift from targeting to creative
14:50 Creative similarity explained
19:10 Targeting personas
23:30 Creative strategists in the AI era
25:13 Creative themes
30:29 Is changing the script enough?
36:56 How many creative concepts should you run?
41:22 Brand consistency vs creative diversity
43:40 Partnership ads deep dive
52:55 Meta AI tools brands should be using
57:56 Measurement & ad account structures
1:01:18 Advice for brands wanting to become Disruptors
1:02:40 Where to stay up to date with Meta updates

our most valuable episode to date

[Hardeep @hardeep_gambhir]

i have been a big article and essay enjoyer for 7 years.

i have probably read more than 10,000+ essays online

below is a thread of my favourite essays or articles of all time (that i remember)

pls drop your favourite ones below.

[CricBaba @baba_cric]

My thoughts - this is a carefully coordinated psyop from Anthropic + US government to hype the anthropic IPO

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ