the best founders i know from india all had the same dream. not to build here.
i used to think it was the money. or the talent density. the more time i spent around it, i think it's simpler than that.
it's just enough people in one space who are delusional enough to believe things will work.
that's it.
bangalore has always had the talent. now it needs that space.
we've spent 3 years building and investing in @innercircle_so with a stubborn belief that the talent here deserves everything the valley gets.
community, capital and distribution.
last sunday, we took the next step.
Exciting news: GLM-5.2 (Max) ranks #2 in Code Arena: Frontend, with +29pt over Claude Opus 4.7 (Thinking) and only behind Fable 5! GLM-5.2 is the best open model vs Kimi-K2.6 and Minimax-M3 by a large margin.
- #2 React and #4 HTML sub-leaderboards
- Ranks as the top model in nearly all sub categories: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Gaming, and Simulations.
Congrats @Zai_org for the incredible milestone!
Planning to start a Paper Club in Bengaluru, where we’ll invite researchers, read papers, and discuss them together.
Reply below if you’d like to join.
.@innercircle_so started with just a few of us, building things, becoming friends.
2.5 years of just walking towards whatever felt right got us here.
a real space for builders to come build together.
t-10 to open. indiranagar.
if you're a solo founder or a team building in silo and want to work with us, comment inner circle to get in early.
@francescoswiss@MetaMask This is so cool. Those addresses aren’t human friendly anyways, agents can easily authenticate than me checking thousands of times that have I copy pasted full address 🙈