Shashi Singh

Indian, learner.
“Views are my own” and “RTs not endorsements”

[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.

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@zeptocares ordered Aam Panna on 26 oct and received an expired product (Mfg 18/06/25, Exp 17/08/25), and when I complained, your team told me it’s within validity and meets quality standards , you guys seriously blind or just don’t care? This is food we consume, not some joke.

[Team Prof. K. C. Sinha (कृष्ण चंद्र सिन्हा) @prof_kcsinha]

Wishes from Former CBI Director Shri Anil Sinha

[Cobrapost @cobrapost]

Cobraposts presents “Ledger of Lies”, first in a series called the #LootWallah where it investigates Indian corporates skimming from public money. The first investigates the Reliance ADA Group companies
Press Release: https://t.co/o0eCR9BRhJ
Cover Story: https://t.co/s6oXlvPWgY
Videos: https://t.co/hmVNCnrRbe

[Jan Suraaj @jansuraajonline]

Teaser: संघर्ष के 1280 दिन

[Naval @naval]

It's not the politicians, it's the voters.

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

Heard this first from my grandmother, A teenage girl once rode into war, disguised as a man, led 40000 Rajputs against the Mughals, and died before she turned 17, chose death over capture. Her name? Rani Durgavati. Not a myth. Not a tale. Just India’s forgotten fire.

[Megan | @megievalist @megievalist]

share your favorite piece of medieval lore

[Archana Tiwari @ArchanaRajdharm]

After 2 months of ground reporting, endless edits & emotional moments, I’ve finally completed my first-ever documentary of this kind.

It’s based on the migrant Bihari labourers—their journey, struggle, and unheard voices.

Here is the link- https://t.co/SnDBLS2Dyl

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@Blue936627 @pragya_13_ Not your bruh, He ghosted teacher after scoring 100 in math and cracking AIIMS without even telling him he is switching to bio. No one teaches full math syllabus for free and that too in govt school unless they think student is choosing math, This is betrayal in my opinion..

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

Can’t watch those videos, parents holding limp bodies of their child, mothers crying out in pain. This is not just tragdy.

Children went to school and never came back and the system doesn’t blink.

We are not just failing, We are rotting..

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

झालावाड़ में स्कूल की दीवार गिर गई।
7 बच्चों की मौत "सरकारी" है, बाक़ी गिनती मलबे में दबी पड़ी है।
छोटे-छोटे बस्ते अब खाली हैं, अस्पताल कराहों से भरे हैं।

ना नेता शर्मिंदा है, ना कोई अफ़सर ज़िम्मेदार।
Children die, system survives.
इस देश में इंसान की जान से सस्ती बस चुप्पी है।

[Ranvir Shorey @RanvirShorey]

Shocked and saddened to hear of @Atheist_Krishna’s demise! He was a precious gem on my TL, with always something kind or funny to say. Life is so unpredictable and fragile. Will miss him on X. RIP, brother. 🙏🏽

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@sachin_bhutada @IncomeTaxIndia Yes, you should avoid this. It's a clear case of tax evasion.

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

44ADA exclude salary and where significant control exercised by the payer.
@IncomeTaxIndia such posts misguide taxpayers, promote willful non-compliance. Influencers be held accountable and subjected to penalty, reassessment and prosecution for spreading flawed tax advice.

[Reuben @reubence]

No need for agriculture, just get a remote job.

If you earn 50 lakhs from your Remote job (employer outside India).

You can only pay taxes of only 3.3L under the new system. Look up 44ADA.

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@atuljajooo @reubence That's true. Influencers with zero skin in the game are pushing misleading tax hacks for impressions.Innocent ppl risk penalties by blindly trusting viral threads. They just see and assume whatever nonsense these irresponsible people saying must be true.
@FinMinIndia

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@reubence If your work is controlled/supervised or disguised employment arrangement , or the profession is not notified, or payments are not "gross receipts" from business , 44ADA won’t apply.

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@reubence This post is factually incorrect and misleading in its interpretation of Section 44ADA .The employer-employee relationship excludes the applicability of 44ADA. Even consultancy or freelance income from foreign clients may not qualify under 44ADA if : -
1/n

[Balaji @balajis]

No. But I'm happy to explain.

(1) First, you assume incorrectly that America is a valuable economy that everyone wants to get into, when it's unfortunately more like a bankrupt country that the smart money is rapidly getting out of. That's why BTC has appreciated by >100,000,000X against USD, why gold is at record highs, why yields are soaring, and why the DXY is crashing. I take no pleasure in pointing this out, but I do have to point it out.

(2) Second, you assume incorrectly that airgapping is censorship when it's actually more like digital borders. If X wants to retain both its American and Indian users, it might try to recommend American posts to Americans and Indian posts to Indians, rather than fomenting conflict where there was none before.

(3) Third, you assume incorrectly that airgapping is bad for getting your voice out there as an American. But recall that there are only 77M MAGA but 1.4B from India. In the absence of airgapping, you will eventually be overwhelmed on every thread by English-speaking Indians, who will soon represent the majority of English speakers online (if they aren't already). That will be extremely painful, for you.

(4) Fourth, you assume incorrectly that I'm advocating for continued immigration of tech to the US, when I actually tell global technologists to stop coming to the West and instead decentralize abroad because the system is about to go supernova.

(5) Fifth, you assume incorrectly that every Indian is dependent on the H-1B. But the H-1B is about as central to Indian talent today as the American market is to Chinese trade. That is: it's not so important that it can't be done without.

As context, after the start of the trade war in 2017, China rerouted most of its trade over the last 10 years to other markets, such that it only gets ~15% of revenue from the US. Like it or not, that means China is essentially indifferent to the 2025 tariffs.

Indians are similarly already rerouting talent flows to places like Dubai in the UAE, which has a higher GDP-per-capita and millionaire density than the US...and is rolling out golden visas even as the US is cutting back on H-1Bs. South Asians are >50% of the UAE, so Dubai is friendly to Indians in a way the US increasingly isn't.

That is happening simultaneously with the growth of the Indian home market. You might not know this, but India was the fastest growing economy in the world over the last 10 years, even ahead of China:

Finally, and most importantly, because Indians now have the TCP/IP visa, they don't really need the H-1B visa. An Indian engineer may be a second class citizen in America, but they are a first class citizen on the global Internet, and that's all they need.

Anyway: in the long run, I do think Americans and Indians will get along again. But for the foreseeable future I advise Indians to (a) not come to America, (b) not inadvertently boost anti-Indian threads, (c) build themselves up economically in India, in the UAE, and on the Internet, and (d) generally reduce their dependence on the US in every possible respect, especially with respect to the US financial system.

That's what airgapping means.

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@RailwaySeva @spj Bhai bs kr ab mantri ko Pani pila tu Jake.. and WhatsApp pe hin escalation request daalna. Main ab pahuchne wala hun apne destination.

[Shashi Singh @findshashi]

@RailwaySeva Traveling in 12554 Vaishali Express (2nd AC). Since 8 PM yesterday from Delhi, there's been no water ,toilets are stinking horribly. Complained, but all are passing the responsibility from TT Vishnu Gupta to service staff. @RailMinIndia