Varun Vohra

co-founder @vaareehome. Previously co-founded @aknamed_IN @geniitech

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

This would have been read / received differently prior to plans for Ads in ChatGPT becoming public.

While the chain of thought may (or may not) be consistent, sequence of exposure heavily influences perception at large.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Here is our current plan for OpenAI:

https://t.co/r29FUUee3A

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@vaibhavbetter @vaareehome @GariLuthra @SayantikaSays (3/3) eg: image you shared is a modern bohemian aesthetic bedroom in neutral tones. You need: bedding set, throw pillows, area rugs, table lamps, macrame hanging, printed wall art, curtains, hanging and tabletop plants, and wooden organisers!

Check it out https://t.co/TD75HvH2LF

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@vaibhavbetter @vaareehome @GariLuthra @SayantikaSays (2/3) To solve this exact problem, we built our VibeCheck product.

Take a picture or upload any look you like and it will breakdown the design, color palate and exact list of products you need to recreate that look :)

[Alexander Whedon @alex_whedon]

Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.

It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA),

And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is:

- 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens
- Less than 5% the cost of Opus

Transformer-based LLMs waste compute by processing every possible relationship between words (standard attention).

Only a small fraction actually matter.

@subquadratic finds and focuses only on the ones that do.

That's nearly 1,000x less compute and a new way for LLMs to scale.

[sahu @cybersahu]

Introducing Dreamspan.

We're building towards 150 years of healthspan.

Enabled by adaptive health technologies.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Hello. How are you? Thank you. I love you. Please.

Some of the most frequently translated phrases of the past 20 years!

Google Translate began twenty years ago with a mission to help people understand one another, regardless of the language they speak. What started as a small experiment has become a global tool that helps over 1 billion users every month.

In that time Translate has evolved from simple pattern matching to true understanding. In 2006, it relied on statistical machine learning to look for patterns in small word clusters. By 2016, we pioneered a shift to neural networks to move beyond literal word-for-word translations, and today we’re using our powerful Gemini models to make Translate even more helpful.

We are moving from text to fluid, real-time conversations. With our latest models, you can even use your headphones as a personal interpreter that preserves your original tone and cadence - it’s an amazing experience!

One of the interesting things about AI is that as we make progress, we begin to take it for granted. If you met a person who could translate across a hundred languages faster than any human can, you would be so impressed. Today, one product does that for nearly 250 languages, and we kind of just shrug.

Being able to say thank you in 250 languages is not something I take for granted. So to the 1 billion who use Google Translate - merci, dhanyavaad, arigatō, gracias, and thank you! Let’s see what the next 20 years will bring.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Business Wire India @BWIndia]

#Vaaree Releases the Home Index 2025, Tracking How #IndianHomes Are Being Styled and Lived in

@vaareehome

#Walldécor #HomeStorage #households #Design #aesthetics #homestylingtrends #retail #stylingspaces

https://t.co/mrTjAEjxOC

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

Capitalism is like gold: purity maximizes value, alloying maximizes utility.

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@chirag @vaareehome Hey Chirag, guilty as charged 🙈 that was our WA bot taking ‘creative liberty’ at the wrong time 😅

We promise we’re better at home décor than bot parenting. Will DM you the product details shortly - thanks for the patience!

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@lorenzo_pravata Done

[vaareehome @vaareehome]

This Diwali, mithai yaad rahe na rahe… decor yaad rahega 🪔📷

Get your home festival-ready with Vaaree’s Diwali Sale - decor, lighting, serveware & more. 📷📷
Shop now: https://t.co/SPIWaMMAYN

#DiwaliSale #FestiveHomeDecor

[Surge @_surgeahead]

Surge is not just about building startups—it’s building the future, from everywhere.

🚀 350+ founders. 17+ nationalities. 150+ startups. 17 sectors. Over half go global from day one. 🌏

From the US to India and across Southeast Asia:
📲@airalocom: The world’s first eSIM store—keeping 2M+ travelers connected in 200+ countries.
🧩@MySkillmatics: Bringing educational toys to 20,000+ stores from the US and UK to India, Germany, and Australia.
🗂️@AtlanHQ: Uniting data-driven teams across 40+ countries.
🦾@RelevanceAI_: Empowering anyone to build from anywhere—with 40,000+ AI agents helping businesses build AI workforces to supercharge productivity.
🎥@invideoOfficial: Empowering 7M+ creators in 195+ countries to make videos in 75+ languages—in just a few seconds.
🤝@UseMultiplier: Simplifying global employment—helping companies hire and manage talent in over 150 countries.
🌐@tazapay: Powering secure global payments in 170+ markets and 85+ countries.

Surge startups are empowering millions, connecting everyone from everywhere—revolutionizing learning, enabling cross-border payments, and enhancing workflows worldwide.

Want to build the future you see? Join Surge 11, applications close Aug 15 ➡️ https://t.co/svZMc0cLJW

[Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter]

Excited to be judging Pitch Perfect — a bold new pitch challenge for students and young builders.

This one’s close to my heart & squarely aligned with our non-profit project, DF. Also, because when you’re just starting out, what you need most is belief — and a real shot.

That’s exactly what this is.

Pitch your idea. Win ₹10,00,000. Get funded.
No fluff. Just a serious opportunity to build.

You’ll pitch directly to Nithin Kamath (Zerodha & Rainmatter), Shrehith Karkera (Ditto & Finshots), and me — and we’re here to back ideas that deserve to exist.

We’ve already crossed 1000+ submissions.
And after tons of requests, we’ve opened it up to non-students under 25 as well.

If you’re building something bold - apply today. LINK IN THE FIRST COMMENT.

And if your idea uses AI, apply for AI Grants India too. Free access to top AI models so you can move fast. LINK IN THE FIRST COMMENT.

Let’s build ⚡️

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@HarshMehta2205 @vaareehome @help_delhivery Hey Harsh, don’t worry. This is a bad experience. Our team has already created a new pickup for this - they will come tomorrow to collect.

Thank you for raising this, we are improving our systems to handle such instances better and faster.

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

Category crowded with options but starved for trust, we see an opportunity to build something enduring.

Team @vaareehome is building to solve for quality, reliability, and discovery in home.

Thank you @RajanAnandan & @_surgeahead 🚀 for the support and guidance.

[Rajan Anandan @RajanAnandan]

Home Furnishings (excluding furniture) is a Rs 1.2 lakh crore market in India that is highly unorganised and growing double digits. Super excited about our @_surgeahead company @vaareehome that is bringing the best range of products with exceptional customer experience to this giant market in India!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@sama am really hoping for better support at @OpenAI. Few days facing the same issue and yest. shared the screenshots highlighting a bug/issue in the settings page. A resolution may take time, but it’s not very hard to respond on the chat. 18 hours later no reply.