Riz Thakur

I write about topics most people only lecture about.
Author · The AI Tsunami · Founder · · Fractional AI Platform

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@DarioAmodei Hearing you say “AI Tsunami” on @nikhilkamathcio podcast was surreal. I’ve just launched my book The AI Tsunami, written with Claude AI and proudly crediting it. The future really is arriving fast.

https://t.co/jwSNQJvUUx

[Nikhil Kamath @nikhilkamathcio]

Episode Out Now: https://t.co/DCHti26cBl

The man building what might be the most powerful technology in history says he's uncomfortable with how much power he has, that should tell you something, we talked about whether AI will make us dumber, why nobody believes tech founders who claim good intentions, what a 25 year old in India should actually do right now, and why the ability to think critically might be the only skill that appreciates from here.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

राजनीतिक कटुता और शत्रुता के इस दौर में मुख्यमंत्री विजय का यह कदम सुंदर है। विपक्षी नेताओं के घर जाना, मुलाकात करना। यह सब बंद हो गया था।

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Bengal continues to burn even the day after Parivartan is sworn in. BJP goons set ablaze 60 shops belonging to both Hindus & Muslims in Khejuri. Where are the 700 companies of central forces now?

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@luxemiaa You walked right into his trap... smart boy your hubby...

[Robin Delta @heyrobinai]

THE ENTIRE AI INDUSTRY JUST GOT HUMILIATED

a tiny model trained in just a few hours on a single graphics card is planning 48x faster than billion-dollar supercomputers.

It actually understands physics instead of just memorizing patterns.

yann lecun was right the whole time

for three years every major lab told you the same story. scale is all you need. just throw more GPUs at it. just train on more tokens. eventually the model will "wake up" and understand the world.

it was a lie. or at minimum, a very expensive bet that just lost.

LeCun kept saying generative AI is a dead end. predicting the next pixel or the next token is fundamentally wasteful, the model burns trillions of parameters memorizing surface details instead of learning how reality actually works.

he proposed JEPA instead. predict abstract concepts in a compressed thought space. don't paint the world pixel by pixel, understand it.

the problem was JEPA kept collapsing. left to its own devices the model would cheat, mapping a dog, a car, and a human to the same point in latent space. technically minimizes the loss. learns absolutely nothing.

every fix was ugly. seven loss terms. frozen encoders. EMA tricks. stop-gradients. the kind of duct-tape engineering that should have been a red flag.

then LeCun's team dropped LeWorldModel.

they replaced all the hacks with one regularizer that forces the latent space into a gaussian distribution. the model can no longer cheat. to make accurate predictions it has to actually encode physics.

15 million parameters. single GPU. trains in hours.
plans 48x faster than foundation world models.
detects physically impossible events on its own.

meanwhile OpenAI is raising another $40B to train GPT-6 on a data center the size of manhattan.

the entire scaling thesis just got embarrassed by a model that fits on a gaming PC.

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@sandeep_PT India has a larger issue than AI Policy

There is no risk capital of the size needed for global level innovation

Easier for startups to move geographies than fail to raise risk capital

Not a model, but Perplexity is a good example, wouldn't have raised the needed capital here

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@DanielSmidstrup Same as first time Playstation/Xbox users... it will subside as novelty normalises

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

The most sensible comments of the year...much respect for Jensen

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world.

"If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society.

"It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever.

That's hurtful."

"Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous.

"That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs.

"That is it going to completely destroy democracy.

"These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything."

Brutal.

And right.

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@asaio87 Contrary personal experience

Knowing how you want something built is critical

Use AI to educate yourself first if needed

Expecting real intelligence from AI is a sure way to fail

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@smthomas3 In trying to control Mythos seems @AnthropicAI has missed a trick with 4.7

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@Jason I'm in

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

An angry lady’s image shouting at a political leader and his party for having stopped the road has gone viral.
That one woman has said what millions of us feel. Stop blocking roads for your political agendas. Stop blocking roads, temples, for VIPs.
People have work, emergencies, lives. This entitlement has gone too far.

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@sflorimm Get the right skills. No code can be more than 300 lines as rule.

Guess you're playing around then fine

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

Right to Equal Education till Grade 12 makes a country strong.

India needs to reverse its move of privatising school education.

[Pushpendra Singh Digital @PushpendraTech]

🚨 BREAKING: China Just Shocked the World with This Bold Move!

China has banned businessmen from profiting off education for kids aged 6–15 😳

No more private school money-making.
No more treating education like a business.

Authorities say: “Children are not a revenue model.”

The goal?
✔️ Reduce family pressure
✔️ Make education more equal
✔️ Kill the profit-driven school system

This decision is now going viral globally and raising one big question:

👉 Should other countries do the same?

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

Machines make food, we enjoy.

Why would it matter who made the software?

Value will decide not the process.

[Jesse Rowe @jessetrowe]

We're at war with AI slop.

More than half the internet is AI generated and nobody can tell you which half.

Introducing @DetectArena, the place you go to check if something is AI, and then verify that claim.

comment "spot slop" for 25 extra credits 👇

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.”

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

TCS cuts 20,000 jobs

#TheAITsunami well underway

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

**TCS JUST BUTCHERED 20,000 ENGINEERS WHILE POSTING $30 BILLION REVENUE AND CALLING IT "AI-DRIVEN TRANSFORMATION"**

20,000 people. The largest layoff in Indian tech history. While sitting on record revenue.

Tata Consultancy Services just executed nearly their entire workforce with a single press release about "strategic AI realignment"

CEO Rajesh Gopinathan walked away with ₹16.9 crore compensation while 20,000 engineers got escorted out by security

The same engineers who built their "AI excellence centers" and trained the models that are now replacing them

I'm hearing the termination emails were sent by an automated system at 9 AM Mumbai time. No meetings. No explanations. Badge access revoked within 30 minutes.

Sources saying they're replacing the entire development pipeline with AI agents and offshore contractors making $8,000 annually

The company called it "workforce optimization for the AI era"

Translation: we figured out how to maintain the same client deliverables with 75% fewer humans

Stock jumped 18% on the news. Investors celebrating the "margin expansion opportunity"

Meanwhile 20,000 families just lost their income while TCS executives collect bonuses for "operational excellence"

The kicker: they're still hiring "AI prompt engineers" at 40% of what the terminated engineers were making

If you work for any Indian tech giant, update your resume tonight

This is just the beginning

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@dekhane_mukul Giving away your age...

Oil was sold in open containers
Atta was only from the stressful chakki...Mom had said dont let him mix it...
Aluminium Milk cards

From using a landline without a dial to dabbling in AI...ours is a rare generation ...

Wouldn't change a minute

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@vivoplt 🤣😂🤣😂 good one

[Riz Thakur @rizT]

@sandeep_PT The CEOs don't get this...

IT & AI being understood as the same by non-technical leaders is a huge challenge