Indians are blaming Infy/Murthy/Nandan for a lack of home-grown LLM. But that blame is misplaced. Infy/Murthy/Nandan could never start an AI company. They had money and they could have fund something. But that again, is their money and why should they risk it?
The real culprit here is Amitabh Kant and other IAS like him. These are the people, why I left India and started two companies in the US. These are the people, why much of Indian talent left to work for US based companies. And these folks did well.
Let's say the government gives me $10B and ask me to set up an AI lab in India. Am I qualified to do it? YES. Will I do it? HELL NO
And you would ask why? Some would say that I have a cozy life in the US. Some would say, I have deep connection in the US, including family. All of that is correct but does not pin point the reason why I wont start a company in India.
The real reason is Babu. Unlike, many In India who think competing for 1000 seats using some bullshit essay writing contest makes Babu some wizard, I have not come across one, I will hire as an analyst. Under no circumstance, I am gonna report to a babu (Happy report to Dharmendra Pradhan or Smriti Irani though). Also, under no circumstances, I will accept a position where I am unable to fire and put an IAS in jail if they reported to me and indulged in some corruption.
Till this babu problem is fixed, no NRI would come to India. If I were the CIA or CCP, trying to ensure that India does not gain AI independence, I would make every effort to protect Babu fiefdom.
NITIN Gadkari’s obsession with Ethanol will be the single reason why NDA will lose power eventually.
The anger is rising and it’s just going to get worse. Existing owners of vehicles bought a few years ago are experiencing issues. People buy vehicles after saving for years.
Richest man of China: Zhang Yiming
New ventures: Unitree Robotics, ByteDance AI Labs.
Richest man of America: Elon Musk
New ventures: SpaceX, Grok xAI, Neuralink.
Richest man of India: Mukesh Ambani
New ventures: Vantara Icecream, Campa Sure, Campa Cola.
Fun fact: Vantara Premium Ice Cream starts at ₹750 per scoop + taxes!
And then people question about MAKE IN INDIA 🇮🇳
> Bro became CEO of an Indian MNC
> In 2017, he requested his Super CEO to invest $1 billion in AI
> Super CEO trashes AI as hype and told him to be less greedy
> He resigned and left India in 2017
The rest is history
@aravind Last week i went to Lepakshi temple and i also joined a group chanting Raghupati raghava… and i said “Ishwar allah tero naam…” only to learn that i was chanting a modified version, too much of one sided secularism!
Yann LeCun says Elon Musk has predicted Level 5 autonomy within 5 years for the last 8 years, and has been consistently wrong
"either he believed it and was mistaken, or he was lying"
It may push the team, but for engineers, hearing 'next year' again and again is demoralizing
Demis Hassabis’s “Einstein test” for defining AGI:
Train a model on all human knowledge but cut it off at 1911, then see if it can independently discover general relativity (as Einstein did by 1915);
if yes, it’s AGI.
ISRO Budget 2014 : $1.1 Billion
SC/ST Budget 2014: $11.65 Billion
ISRO Budget 2026 : $1.4 Billion
SC/ST Budget 2026 : $35.9 Billion
In the last 12 years, the SC/ST budget has grown far more than ISRO budget.
Nothing matters more than vote bank politics & appeasement.
HAL's problem is that they can't hire a critical technologist for say making a single crystal blade if he asks for $5M and independent charge. They can only offer him a role of Scientist D with a pay of ₹90K/month reporting to some Scientist F who can't even spell his name properly. And it's not HALs fault. You can't do it in any other way in a PSU. Otoh Mukhesh bhai or Gautam Bhai can offer you $50M and make a full lab for you if you can actually sort something critical out for them. This stuff needs to move to the private sector asap.
Oh god, what a utter waste of money. You need engineers to create a "modern aircraft manufacturing company", not tel-sabun MBAs and their PPTs.
Although two things are guaranteed:
1. HAL won't change one bit.
2. A few dozen babu kids have sealed their college + job seat in the West.