Harshvardhan

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@aaronp613 Love this in my BYD! Tap my phone on the mirror to unlock

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

As a skilled carpenter works on sharpening their tool, models need to work on their harnesses

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Turns out GPT-5.6 Sol is actually SoTA on ARC-AGI-3.

Just took two setting changes. You just have to allow it to reason and work over multiple context windows with the help of our canonical compaction implementation.

https://t.co/wHjaNsvIv8

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@dremnik I created similar tool that you press CMD + Shift + Space then it starts recording with a visual cue, press again to stop, it transcribes using Whisper local or @SarvamAI’s brilliant & cheap multilingual models and pastes at cursor. Keeps history.

https://t.co/G4eozv8dQV

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@simonw I had Claude Code built a telegram channel that’s severely restricted on what it can do (poll for ongoing jobs, consolidate status, etc.) and yes, I use it when I’m away from my machine. Never used OpenClaw or Hermes.

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

hey @SarvamAI, maybe you can create a keyboard which only has a mic that is speech-to-text.
your speech-to-text models are amazing! supports Indian languages best at ₹0.5/min (~$0.005/min).

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

Claudish — language of LLMs

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

One thing I mentioned only in passing in my Fable post is that, for long running tasks, Fable starts to develop its own dialect as its many agents and tasks reinforce themselves and make Claudish language ever more Claudish.

You need to ask it to report out in plain English.

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@mernit Why don't you just build one with CC/Codex?

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@Yuchenj_UW

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

Claude now uses Grokipedia for citations...

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@sidhant @vijayshekhar Does that mean we can exit the airport now? Because German airports never required transit visa if we don’t leave port side — have transited through Frankfurt multiple times.

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

Wow, crazy results.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Billionaire Michael Milken joked “if a US company replaces the US-born CEO with a CEO born in India, I buy the stock”

But he reveals he hasn’t backtested the idea.
So we did.

In the last 15yrs, that would’ve 50x’d your money: 7.5x more $$ and >2x IRR vs S&P500: 30% vs 14%!

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@sama Make them work well with other OpenAI products! Like being able start a codex session from ChatGPT on web/desktop/mobile. Pull information from Prism to Chat/Codex and reverse. And skills and MCPs. Ability to use multiple Google accounts in connectors.

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

But why? I can edit Markdown much easily than HTML. MarkEdit on MacOS can show me HTML render with just CMD + Shift + V…

[Thariq @trq212]

HTML is the new markdown.

I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me. This is why.

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@Stammy There’s also MarkEdit!

https://t.co/wtY10QZeqn

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

It’d be very cool to see the high speed rail in India.

(Just a little sad that my India moves at the speed of an elephant. The bureaucracy is SO slow!)

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

@Afinetheorem Very cool! Partially aligns with the proposed grid. One difference is the existing plan is for a Mumbai-Nagpur-Guwahati line, which AI skipped.

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

And how come I still don’t have reliable electricity in my home town, Jhumri Tilaiya, Jharkhand!

[The Indian Matrix @indianmatrix]

In 2005, India couldn’t meet 12.3% of its own peak demand. By 2007, the shortfall had widened to nearly 16.6%, and close to 18,000 megawatts were unavailable.

The early 2000s were years of genuine electricity poverty. Factories ran on diesel backup generators as a matter of routine. Homes in smaller cities and villages received power for a few hours a day.

Distribution, which is the final link between the grid and the household, was historically the most neglected and most corrupt part of the chain. Electricity theft was widespread, billing was unreliable, and state electricity boards were financially broken.

Reforms here were uneven and politically difficult, but schemes like UDAY, launched in 2015, restructured the debt of state distribution companies and pushed them toward financial viability. The Saubhagya scheme, from 2017, connected the last unelectrified households, around 25 million of them, to the grid by 2019.

India’s solar capacity in 2010 was negligible. Today, it is measured in hundreds of gigawatts. The price of solar panels fell globally by over 90% across this period, and India made a strategic bet to capture that cost decline at scale. Rooftop solar programmes brought electricity generation to homes, factories, and commercial buildings. And the International Solar Alliance, co-founded by India in 2015, helped build global momentum.

The timing proved critical. India’s peak electricity demand now falls in the afternoon, driven by air conditioning in an increasingly hot country. Solar generates hardest in exactly those hours.

On April 25, around 12:30 pm, solar plants and rooftop systems together supplied roughly one-third of all electricity being generated at that moment. Across the full day, solar’s share was around 22%.

India today draws 52% of its electricity from non-fossil sources. More than half of every unit generated comes from sun, water, wind, or nuclear.

The deficit percentage, which once sat stubbornly above 10%, has now collapsed. Since 2024, it has been effectively zero.

Reliable electricity means a small business owner does not budget for a diesel generator as a fixed cost. It means an electric vehicle is practical for someone who cannot afford to be stranded. It means a student in a rural home can study at night without planning around power cuts. It means a hospital runs its equipment on the assumption that the supply will hold.

Electricity reliability is, in the end, a quiet form of equity. When the grid is unreliable, those with money buy backup. Those without simply go without. India's closing of its power deficit means that the gap no longer falls along economic lines.

The country that once rationed darkness now delivers light on demand, at the moment of highest need, to everyone connected to the grid.

That took two decades and thousands of infrastructure decisions. It is not the kind of achievement that fits in a headline. But on an April afternoon, when 256 gigawatts flowed, and nothing broke, it showed.

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

ChatGPT Images 2.0 (Pro) generates a photo of a cake decorated with SVG that when transcribed to a file renders another cake

[Arindam Paul @arindam___paul]

Very interesting graphic

[Harshvardhan @harshbutjust]

@latha_venkatesh @DalrympleWill Devnagri is a lot, lot newer than Tamil. Like almost two thousand years at least. Nagri is older, Kaithee is older. Tamil-Brahmi is definitely older.

[Jaspreet Bindra : Homo Promptus @j_bindra]

Saturday was my last day at @AshokaUniv, where I teach a course on AI for their Young India Fellowship students.

This was on vibe-coding, and one student used @GoogleAIStudio to vibe code a ‘spell-checker for @WhatsApp messages’ in the very two hours that @anujmagazine and I were teaching it!

That one student was 22-year-old Sabari Venkat Sreenivas (@LinkedIn profile: https://t.co/bYCXCppzG4 )

Some students leave an impression because they have an unusual combination of courage, clarity and purpose. Sabari is one of them.

Sabari is 100% visually impaired. But that is NOT the story.

The story is what he has done, is doing, and what he is building.

He has already lived a remarkable life for someone so young: recognised by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam & PM @narendramodi . He studied Political Science, International Studies, and is now at Ashoka. His refuses to see disability as a barrier.

What really stayed with me, though, was how he spoke about AI.

Many of us use AI to write , summarise, make slides, clean up documents. All good.

But for Sabari, AI is not merely for productivity. It is independence.

A poster can be ‘seen’; a PDF ‘read’ e; currency notes identified. Objects can be described, colours recognized, people identified. Small fish for the sighted, but for Sabari, they are dignity, autonomy and confidence.

And then comes the even more impressive part.

Sabari does'nt just use AI to live better; he wants to use AI to build.

He is building an app called RizzVision: to make online fashion accessible for the blind.

Simple things: What do I wear? What matches? Does this fit? Is this shoe aligned? Worn something inside out? Stain on my shirt? Do I look presentable for an interview? Ordinary questions for most of us, for him daily barriers to independence.

Sabari is building an ‘auditory mirror’ : a way to know how you look, whether your clothing is appropriate, or something you may want to fix before stepping out. The 'mirror', a mobile app, speaks it aloud

AI not just powers the product, it is impossible to do without AI

Building a prototype with zero funding. Vibe-coding it with Claude using multimodal features of Google Gemini , with Chatgpt as a guide. Training on 400,000 images scrapped using AI.

I have written often about the sheer possibilities AI throws up, and how ‘English becomes the new Coding’. Here AI is not just helping to consume capability but create it.

AI seems to be all about hype, disruption & shiny demos. Then you meet a Sabari and remember what the best use of technology really is.

Not spectacle, but agency. Not noise, but possibility.

We at AI&Beyond will be standing with him to help realise the possibilities

If you want to help Sabari build RizzVision with time, resources, credits, and money, please do reach out to me directly on DM.

(Oh, Sabari taught me that ‘rizz’ is GenZ-speak for charisma!)

@PramathSinha @ArchanaMuthappa @AshishDhawanTCF