OpenSetu

Vernacular Layer for India Stack.
Identity, Commerce & Payments Rails for Bharat.
Built on Handshake. Delivered via DNS. Free and Open.
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[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

Bharat ID just changed the game.
Aadhaar verification without numbers.
Runs clean across UPI and the full India Stack.
English, Ol Chiki and every Indian script.
This is how digital rails for 1.4B should feel.

@GoI_MeitY @TribalAffairsIn @svembu

[The Uncensored Nair @UncensoredNair]

One deal. One missile.
Turkey's 50-year dominance — over.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

One mother forbade medicines to the dying, converted them, then laughed at the death count; the other mother has provided free treatment to 5.9 million, built 13 million sqft, 95 OT, 101 speciality, 4050 bed hospitals employing 1540 doctors.

The first mother got the Nobel Prize.

[Allen Braden @allen_explains]

This 2-hour Stanford lecture breaks down how models like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built, clearer than what many people in top AI roles ever get exposed to.

Save this and set aside two hours today. It might end up being the most valuable thing you learn all week.

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

India talks about Digital India. But millions of Santali speakers still can’t even read government websites.

We just changed that.

Aadhaar, accessed via an Ol Chiki domain. Fully usable in Santali. No English needed.

This isn’t a feature. This is access.

@PMOIndia @TribalAffairsIn — time to make the internet truly Bharatiya.

https://t.co/zOB6CCdDy0

[UPSC Mentor Piyush @PiyushIASMentor]

@raghav_chadha If maintaining millions of accounts has zero cost, who pays?
If it has a cost, who should bear it?
That’s the real debate, not emotional headlines.

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy UBI will lead to hyper inflation.
A resource based economy might be a better answer.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you're an AI startup in India, renting processing power from the government to train your model costs about $0.7 per hour. The same hardware on Amazon Web Services costs $3.7. On Microsoft Azure, $6.6. The Indian government is subsidizing AI infrastructure at rates that would make most Western startups do a double-take.

I read all 26 pages of the white paper this tweet links to. The numbers inside are wild.

The IndiaAI Mission has a budget of about $1.2 billion over five years, approved in March 2024. Almost half of that, roughly $500 million, goes straight to building the processing power AI companies need to train their models. The original plan was to deploy 10,000 processors. By December 2025, they had 38,000 running. 3.8x what they promised.

A government open call in January 2025 pulled 506 proposals. The four startups picked first were Sarvam AI, Soket AI, Gnani AI, and Gan AI. Eight more were added by September. India now has 12 separate teams building AI models, ranging from tiny ones for basic chatbots to massive ones rivaling those from the US and China. They cover language, voice, vision, medical diagnosis, material science, and even brain-computer interfaces.

The one I keep coming back to is Sarvam AI. They raised $41 million from Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. In May 2025, they released a model built on top of a French AI system (Mistral Small) and customized for Indian languages. It got roasted online. Critics said it was a foreign model in Indian clothing. So they went back and built Sarvam-105B completely from scratch, using Indian hardware under the government mission. It outperformed China's DeepSeek-R1 on certain tests, even though it was a model six times larger. Both were released for anyone to download and use in March 2026.

There's something else buried in the paper I haven't seen another country try at this scale. India is building a copyright system specifically for AI training data. Under a December 2025 government proposal, AI companies can train their models on any copyrighted content they can legally access, books, articles, music, anything. Creators cannot say no. But the moment an AI product makes money, royalties are collected by a centralized government body and distributed back to creators. Singapore allows AI companies to use content without payment. China requires strict consent before training. India is trying a middle path, and publishers are already calling it forced participation.

Stanford's AI Vibrancy Index, which measures a country's overall AI strength across research, talent, infrastructure, and investment, ranked India third globally in 2025. Up from seventh in 2023. But the actual scores tell you how far the gap still is: US at 79, China at 37, India at 22. And India's $1.2 billion budget sits next to China's $47.5 billion semiconductor fund and Saudi Arabia's $100 billion Project Transcendence.

India is currently spending 40x less than the frontrunners. This white paper is the most detailed public bet yet that smart infrastructure design can close that gap.

[Matt Stockton @mstockton]

By far my biggest advice to anyone trying to adopt AI properly:

1. Pay a little bit of money to Anthropic
2. Download Claude Code
3. Open Claude Code
4. Press 'Shift-Tab' until it says 'plan mode on'
5. Open Voice Memo on your iPhone. Just talk about all the things you want to accomplish. When you think you are done, just keep talking. Make sure it is at least 10 minutes, hopefully longer
6. Send this Voice Memo to your computer
7. Download MacWhisper and use it to transcribe this voice memo. Trust me, you will want MacWhisper and will use it later a lot
8. Type into Claude Code: "I have never used you before but I talked about some things. I will paste those things in below. Please read the things and ask me any questions you need to in order to help me figure out how to use you to be awesome. Ask me lots of questions until I tell you I am done"
9. Then paste in the transcript
10. Then press enter

Then just let Claude take the wheel, and them please send me a DM if this works.

Also, if this just sounds crazy, just literally take this entire message and paste it into whatever AI you are using and say 'some weird person told me to paste this into you, I want to use it, but I don't know how. What should I do?'

I am just trying to help you get started. Curiosity and persistence are the most important things.

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@ashwinsanghi They are 2000W beasts. That's why.

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@TVMohandasPai @PiyushGoyal Big four even turns up for Video Shoot Projects.
That's right. Film production!
Then they sublet it to smaller guys.

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@elonmusk Ok Apart from the fact that they did not inform the cops the most troubling part is they can read all our Chats.
Does Grok do that @elonmusk

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

I love the audacity of this guy.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just dated the death of human language and explained exactly why it has to die.

Musk: “Our brain spends a lot of effort compressing a complex concept into words.”

Language isn’t communication. It’s failed compression. You have a complete thought. You crush it into words. The listener gets fragments and attempts reconstruction. Everything important dies in translation.

We don’t communicate. We approximate and hope it’s close enough.

Musk: “You would be able to communicate very quickly and with far more precision.”

Neuralink doesn’t improve communication. It replaces it. No compression. No loss. Direct cognitive transfer at the speed thoughts occur. Not describing the painting. Transmitting the experience itself.

Musk: “You wouldn’t need to talk.”

Five to ten years until brain interfaces make speech optional. Talking persists for sentiment. For information? Speech becomes primitive compared to direct neural transmission.

Lifetime of memory in one second. Complete schematics transferred instantly. Not summaries. The entire thought structure whole and uncompressed. Not better communication. Actual telepathy at physical information limits.

Musk: “Ideally, we are a symbiosis with artificial intelligence.”

Humans who don’t merge with AI at high bandwidth don’t just fall behind. They become incomprehensible to the intelligence that matters.

We’re already cyborgs with pathetic interfaces. Phones extend cognition through typing at words per minute when bandwidth should be terabytes per second.

Neuralink doesn’t optimize that. It detonates the constraint.

Five to ten years. Not fiction. Deployment window.

From language as default to neural link as standard. From compressing thoughts into inadequate words to transmitting uncompressed cognition. From humans using AI to humans indistinguishable from AI at communication speeds.

The species that survived by evolving language is making it extinct with technology matching how fast we actually think.

The ones who don’t transition won’t just be slow. They’ll operate at such reduced bandwidth they become effectively deaf to everything happening at neural speed around them.

Language served 50,000 years. It has less than a decade before it becomes smoke signals. Functional but hopelessly inadequate for anything that matters.

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@r0ck3t23 I love the audacity of this guy 💖

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@indica The next Gen wont know how to use blades either.
And they are too lazy to run.

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@MitsuiMasashi Great idea.
Now we are rebranding to Shinobi-No-Mono

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

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[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

@sushruthsreddy @Rainmaker1973 @grok @grok whats a brake check

[OpenSetu @OpenSetu]

The President of India is Santhal.
Yet the Santhal language had no place on the internet.

Read that again.

India celebrated representation.
The internet erased it.

Until today.

For the first time, a tribal language is not being translated, supported or “included”.

It is being addressed.
Typed.
Resolved.
Executed.

A Santhali domain in Ol Chiki, live.
No English.
No app.
No permission.

A public page, in a tribal script,
for the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Jual Oram.

This is not symbolism.
This is control moving to a new layer.

If your language cannot be typed into a browser,
you are not first-class on the internet.
You are a visitor.

That is what tribal India has been for decades.

Not anymore.

Because once a language becomes addressable:
It stops asking,
It starts asserting.

Santhali youth will now speak where power listens.
Build without translation.
Trade without assimilation.
Exist without explanation.

Today it is Ol Chiki.
Next it is every tribal language.

150+ million people
Just stopped passing through someone else’s internet.

This is AdiSetu.
And we have crossed the Rubicon.

@GoI_MeitY @TribalAffairsIn @jualoram @PMOIndia @narendramodi @MohanMOdisha