Santosh Agrawal

IT Infrastructure Architect & Entrepreneur.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

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[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

Impressive release — the benchmark numbers on the 9B and 31B dense are particularly interesting for on-premise sovereign deployments.

One thing holding back adoption for enterprise teams: the model cards say the family is post-trained on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, but don't break down which base model was used for which variant. For teams with policies around Chinese-origin software, this is a blocker.

The vLLM configs also use -reasoning-parser qwen3 across variants, which hints at Qwen lineage but would be great to get an official confirmation per variant directly in the model cards.

Would the team be able to add a one-line base model disclosure to each card? Would go a long way for commercial and government cloud adopters.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

Never buy products of @Yalehomeindia. If you ever buy do not trust their engineers and dealers. Yale is selling Chinese products at a premium and their dealers do not have product knowledge. Their technicians do not have required skills. They shall destroy your wood work and simply cut a sorry figure.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

Good step. But let’s be precise about what is being asked.

ICANN already has root server instances in India. What India is asking for is something with more governance weight – a formal presence that gives India meaningful oversight of its own DNS infrastructure.

The problem is that ICANN is a US entity. A root server on Indian soil, operated under US governance, is not sovereignty. It is outsourced infrastructure with an Indian address. Sound familiar?

The same logic applies to cloud. Physical location of servers has never determined jurisdiction. The CLOUD Act reaches American-owned infrastructure anywhere in the world. An India data centre under a US parent company is not a sovereign cloud.

India is asking the right question about DNS. It just needs to ask it all the way to its logical conclusion – which is Indian-governed infrastructure, not just Indian-located infrastructure.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 The Indian government has asked ICANN to set up an internet root server in the country.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@twtayaan The “v1.0.0 shipped June 9” claim from some articles may be slightly ahead of reality or a very recent release not yet reflected in the README.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

My wife watched me use ChatGPT and asked: "Why didn't this exist during COVID? We had nothing to do."
I had no answer. Then I couldn't stop imagining it. A thread. 🧵

ChatGPT: Crashes Day 1. 8 billion people typing symptoms at 2 AM. Every one of them convinced they are dying. The servers do not survive.

Zoom AI: "Your cat has been removed. Your pajamas have been noted and will remain confidential." Saves careers. Asks for nothing in return.

AI fitness coach: "You have taken 312 steps today. 311 were to the kitchen. I have concerns."

AI meal planner, Week 8: "I cannot classify what you have made. But you ate. That is enough."

LinkedIn AI post generator: "Lockdown gave me 9 lessons on resilience, purpose, and sourdough. Like if you breathe." Posted by everyone. Remembered by no one. Algorithm extremely happy.

The one AI that would have actually mattered?

An honest one. That simply said: we do not know yet, and that is okay.

We have built clever. Still working on honest.

Sequel coming. It gets worse. 👇

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

Congratulations! Now can we see an Indian Mythos ??

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We're thrilled to announce that we have raised $234M in the first close of our $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation.

@HCLTech and @BessemerVP have joined us in this round, alongside continued support from @khoslaventures and @peakxvpartners

For countries and companies, sovereign control on the AI stack is no longer an optionality. Sarvam will be the partner of choice for this aspiration. The capital allows us to accelerate our momentum towards this full stack of models, compute, and deployments.

A huge thank you to our customers, partners, investors, and the Sarvam team for your trust and belief in what we are building. We’re just getting started.

Read more: https://t.co/VmLtpnj8gx

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@Airtel_Presence Still no callback or resolution on ticket 11032477458. Over 24 hrs since your team promised action. No PPPoE credentials, no internet, no TV. Business impacted.
Ready to disconnect permanently + claim compensation unless resolved in the next few hours.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@Airtel_Presence

As an Airtel Black subscriber, I made the apparently unreasonable request of having my fiber connection switched from NAT mode to bridge mode. To Airtel’s credit, the configuration change was completed promptly the very next day.

Unfortunately, that seems to be where competence ended.

What none of your support personnel, across multiple support tickets and at least three levels of escalation, appear to understand is that when an ONT/router is configured in bridge mode, the subscriber requires PPPoE credentials to actually access the Internet. This is not an exotic networking concept. It is Networking 101.

As a result, my broadband connection remains unusable. Since my Airtel TV set-top boxes also depend on this connection, my television services are down as well. My professional work has been impacted, and I have spent days educating your support teams about the basics of the service they are supposed to support.

My current ticket number is: 11032477458.

Today, two different representatives called to assure me that my issue would be attended to. Having made those assurances, they have now apparently adopted the innovative customer-service strategy of simply not answering calls.

At this point, I am seriously considering permanently disconnecting the broadband service and pursuing compensation for the consequential losses I have suffered due to Airtel’s inability to resolve a straightforward technical issue.

And finally, a word about the Airtel Thanks app. Calling it “Airtel Thanks” is perhaps the most optimistic branding exercise in telecommunications history. Based on my experience, “Airtel Thankless” would be considerably more accurate.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@Airtel_Presence

As an Airtel Black subscriber, I made the apparently unreasonable request of having my fiber connection switched from NAT mode to bridge mode. To Airtel’s credit, the configuration change was completed promptly the very next day.

Unfortunately, that seems to be where competence ended.

What none of your support personnel, across multiple support tickets and at least three levels of escalation, appear to understand is that when an ONT/router is configured in bridge mode, the subscriber requires PPPoE credentials to actually access the Internet. This is not an exotic networking concept. It is Networking 101.

As a result, my broadband connection remains unusable. Since my Airtel TV set-top boxes also depend on this connection, my television services are down as well. My professional work has been impacted, and I have spent days educating your support teams about the basics of the service they are supposed to support.

My current ticket number is: 11032477458.

Today, two different representatives called to assure me that my issue would be attended to. Having made those assurances, they have now apparently adopted the innovative customer-service strategy of simply not answering calls.

At this point, I am seriously considering permanently disconnecting the broadband service and pursuing compensation for the consequential losses I have suffered due to Airtel’s inability to resolve a straightforward technical issue.

And finally, a word about the Airtel Thanks app. Calling it “Airtel Thanks” is perhaps the most optimistic branding exercise in telecommunications history. Based on my experience, “Airtel Thankless” would be considerably more accurate.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

Good thread. But let’s be honest about what step 7 actually means.

“Make them yours” is the entire job. Steps 1 through 6 are installation. Step 7 is where six months of work begins.

The plugins ship with generic sales rep knowledge. Your company sells differently. Your legal team has specific red lines. Your finance team closes month-end in a particular sequence. None of that is in the repo. You have to put it there.

Still worth doing. Just go in with accurate expectations, not the “company by end of week” version.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

If you planning to buy a VRV Airconditioning System for your home or commercial space do not rely on @DaikinIndia. They do have a Japanese brand but their post sales service if worse than any Chinese brand. Bad customer support and worst channel partners.

[NVIDIA @nvidia]

A new era of PC.

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[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

In life, we trade in five currencies: wealth, skills, beauty, fame and power. Each attracts the other.

But like it or not, wealth sits at the top, because it can buy much of the rest.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@NewsAlgebraIND The Delhi Golf Club also pays only ₹ 48,500 per month for 179 Acres of prime land.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

Delhi’s anti-pollution strategy is becoming an engineering paradox.

We deploy 200+ anti-smog guns mounted on diesel and CNG trucks to fight air pollution.

Each truck itself emits PM10 pollutants.

And to make it even more efficient, many of these units carry a separate engine-powered generator to run the smog cannon.

So the question is:

Are we actually reducing pollution
or just aerosolizing it more professionally?

Sometimes it feels like we are trying to extinguish a fire using flamethrowers.

Policy optics cannot replace scientific outcomes.

@gupta_rekha @mssirsa @govt_delhi @DelhiGovDigital @LtGovDelhi @CMODelhi

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@HedgieMarkets Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in four months.

That is not an AI problem. That is an architecture problem.

Sovereign, on-premises AI is not just a compliance or data privacy story anymore. It is a CFO story.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@sama Finding me a job at a company that isn’t restructuring around a ‘100x org.’
Asking for 22% of ClickUp.

[Santosh Agrawal @santgra]

@DJ_CURFEW Fired 22% of staff.

Called it a 100x org transformation.

Even the spin is AI-generated.