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[Urbanomics India @Urbanomics_IN]

TN folks move to Bengaluru and give 5-star reviews to mixed culture.

But the second it happens in Chennai, they activate full defensive mode.

It's like cosmopolitan is great as long as it isn't happening here. Go develop my hometown instead!

The math isn't mathing.

[Krishnan @cvkrishnan]

From 2021, 65 self financing engineering colleges out of 446 in Tamil Nadu have been shut down. And yet they have failed to fill more than 33,000 engineering seats this year. TN higher education needs a massive overhaul.

A full relook at school, higher education - both technical professional education and technical vocational education, is needed.

1. Too many engineering graduates for a manufacturing oriented state economy. Students study Mechanical and Production engineering but few wants
to be a line supervising engineer or a production engineer on a factory floor.

2. It is a common cultural fad/theme amongst the average engg college going student to talk of atleast one arrear amongst M2/M3/M4 and/or one of the more difficult subject courses like DSP/Thermal Engineering etc. also is the fact that lab sessions in AU affiliated colleges are namesake with little to show for practical learning and takeaways.

3. Final year projects invariably turn out to be some 3rd party contractor executed projects for the majority presented namesake to get credits

For a manufacturing focused economy, we have disconnected college education from what’s practically needed for the economy and for 3 decades have focused on over producing engg graduates from low quality engineering colleges producing higher proportion of subpar employable graduates.

In the meantime TN has lost out on one important stuff. Entrepreneurship. Need to revive that aspect for our future gen. Vocational training and entrepreneurship becoming MSME suppliers for the FDI and PLI led manufacturing boom could form the base of upward mobility for TN over the next 2-3 decades. Not everyone, heck not even majority need to form an elite engg professional class in this world of AI and a state that isn’t in top 3 in attracting GCCs or ITeS/AI focused domain.

These are developing thoughts and I’ll write more in the thread down.

[Teja @TalesOfTeja]

Some of you never had dependents on your income or family debts and it shows. It’s almost like you and people around you are so privileged that you are unaware of the reality of a large population.

Do what makes most sense for you.

[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.

[Kunal Gandhi @kunalvg]

So China will also block access to its frontier models.

Indian parths, you are on your own now.

[antirez @antirez]

If that happens Europe is officially fucked.

[Kit Walker @pegasus191]

Not a single Indian company (other than BHEL) !!! Strange how much foreign exchange we are sending abroad in terms of royalty and license fees

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

US can hold Olympics, FIFA WC, NHL playoffs, NBA finals, MLB, NFL and college football all at the same time without any stress on the cities/states and will each game going sold out even at elevated prices!

The wealth in America is unmatched. The sports infrastructure in America is unmatched

[Mr Melancholy @chakravartiiin]

India if it inherited football instead of cricket from the British

[PlayStation India @PlayStationIN]

Son of Thanjai is an action-adventure game set in ancient South India, featuring the Surul Vaal, a flexible whip sword never before seen in gaming.

Play as Vinnendiran, a fallen prince fighting to reclaim a throne through a land torn apart by invasion. Coming to PS5.

Wishlist now!

#psindia #sonofthanjai

https://t.co/73A4LJsIi0

[Schindler Rao Shinde @Parikshit_K_]

Always reminded of this.

[Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 @akarlin]

Europeans, Russians... now Indians belatedly realizing, bargaining, coping that there's only two players in this game. 🇺🇸🇨🇳

And they're priced out. Forever.

[Opinion Bakery @IndiaSpeaksPR]

India's greatness lies in the fact that before we could even build the basics of AI infra, we leapfrogged to "datacentres are bad" activism

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

To train a GPT class 1T model from scratch - including failed runs, data acq+clean+rlhf, post-training, team/people will likely req $250M of compute on an aggressive 3-4mo schedule (i.e. more reserved GPUs), $500-600M all-in IF you do a dense one. MoE + fp8 will cut costs by 1/10th depending on how many active params you have. If you want SOTA however, the budgets go significantly higher on test-time compute, post-training RL, and data/synthetic generations..and v. high on talent. Maybe $2-4B all-in. After that comes serving the model. The talent is key to get to SOTA/beat it - and then you have to ensure this is useful enough to have inference vol over time - for which the capital will come if there is usage / TAM. So this is not as much about raising $50-60B, or raising it all at once as the OP says - we are investors in mistral, sarvam, reflection and anthropic - and they all scaled capital over time as models got adoption, but the early bottleneck is more on talent + GPUs at that scale where you can do interesting things.

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Meanwhile in India one Bansal got a good 💰 exit and promptly started a money lending business.

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

A company that makes chips is worth more than a country of 1.5 billion people, which incentivises those people to move to US

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Punishment across the world for govt servants for dereliction of duty, corruption or inefficiency

China - Dismissal with Jail or Death
Singapore - Dismissal and Jail
US - Dismissal, Fine and Jail
Europe - Dismissal and Fine

India - Transfer, promotion, increment and pension

[AWACS Sky Keeper @HQuarterma43504]

Samsung and Hynix compete against the world. Indian """chaebols""" take technology from abroad, and sell domestically at a markup. I don't know why you guys are so dishonest.

[Madhav Chanchani @madhavchanchani]

Bloomberg on Sarvam's funding round

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

Think @andymukherjee70 explained it well 👇

Indian business is more about wealth management than productive investment. And the top oligarchs operate in captured markets via State patronage.

All enabled by a neoliberal state where the bottom 90% have little influence on policy.