Pranav Kulkarni

Software Engineer | Aspiring Generalist

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

Everything I say starts with “I Think , and I may be wrong , that , “

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

Man , everyone and their mama gets into google except me 😭

[Prakarsh | Blockchain Balak @blockchainbalak]

ipad is the most useless apple device

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

Just keep going

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

Every time I run a distance more than the half marathon I get injured smh 🤦

[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.

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

Shit on people who eat/prepare food with hand, preach them about hygiene and make them wear “gloves” , now start cribbing about micro plastics in food . Ridiculous

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

YouTube down 🫨, I need to be on that SRE team ASAP

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

Can we please get a YE concert in USA 🙏🏻

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

In a day ofc

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

One of those dev rel ai super developer prodigy tweeted that they wrote 150k lines of code through ai . My GOAT 🥵🫨🫶🏻

[Andrew Schulz 👑HEZI @andrewschulz]

Halftime show was objectively incredible. If you didn’t like it you’re hating or don’t understand fun. They turned a stadium into a house party. An impossible task executed effortlessly. Bravo 👏

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

😂😂😂

[Zaira Nizaam 🇮🇳 @Zaira_Nizaam]

Watched Dhurandhar twice.

Still confused why Hamza needed invisible ink when he was already writing in ENGLISH.

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

@amaan8429 Used as training data

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

How is stranger things any different from icchadhari nag serial in India.

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

All I see on LinkedIn is “ moving from @gmail.com to @google.com” , when will I get to do that 😭😭😭

[Prakarsh | Blockchain Balak @blockchainbalak]

this year I will only practice my free will

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Most of the entry level Google/Microsoft employees start selling courses basis their credentials.

“Hey I am a Google engineer, pls buy my course”

I don’t know how the companies which are so stringent about legalities, allow someone to use their brand name to moonlight. Even to speak at a panel, top executives have to seek permission from their corp-comm.

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

On a similar note , crows are so under appreciated, they are self sustaining, intelligent and for the most part , do not litter.

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

These MFs have increased their population in India by 150% since 2000. All they do is hop rooftops, fight each other, & shit everywhere. What a useless fucking bird, man. 🤡

[Pranav Kulkarni @pranav_4k]

I have started reading kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain .