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#YNWA I am live. I am not a cat

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

The most striking thing to me about Sarvam's HQ was how run-of-the-mill it felt.

They're located in an Urban Vault building. The lift is slow. The chairs are not fancy. The coffee is meh.

And yet, the work they're doing (especially after the Fable 5 unrelease) is some of the most consequential of any AI lab in India.

Access to intelligence will likely become less egalitarian as time goes on. It will also be used as a bargaining chip. "Do this, or we'll shut off your access." Right now, America and China have the rest of the world in a stranglehold. Companies like Sarvam lower the stakes and give India sovereignty over homegrown models, while also ensuring that millions of Indians have uninterrupted access to AI models that speak their languages.

Clearly, Sarvam's backers (HCLTech, Bessemer, Khosla, and Peak XV) feel the same way.

[Tarang @tarang108]

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@CustomerH94697 @AirCanada

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[Tarang @tarang108]

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[Tarang @tarang108]

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[Beginnersblog @beginnersblog1]

Google just quietly dropped an AI that runs on your Mobile and doesn't need the internet.

- 270 million parameters.
- 100% private.
- No servers.
- No cloud.
- No data leaving your device.

It's called FunctionGemma.

Released December 18, 2025.

And it does something wild:

It turns your voice commands into REAL actions on your phone.

No internet required.
No data leaving your device.
No waiting for servers.
Just you and your phone.

That's it.

Let me break down why this matters:

Current AI assistants work like this:
You speak → Words go to the cloud → Server processes → Answer returns

The problem?
→ Slow (internet round-trip)
→ Privacy nightmare (your data travels everywhere)
→ Useless offline (no signal = no help)

FunctionGemma flips this completely.

Everything happens ON your device.
Response time? 0.3 seconds.
Battery drain? 0.75% for 25 conversations.
File size? 288 MB.

That's smaller than most mobile games.

Here's how it actually works:
Step 1: You say "Add John to contacts, number 555-1234"
Step 2: FunctionGemma understands your intent
Step 3: Translates it to code your phone understands
Step 4: Your phone executes it instantly
Step 5: Done. Contact saved. No cloud involved.

The numbers that blew my mind:

• 270M parameters (6,600x smaller than GPT-4)
• 126 tokens per second
• 85% accuracy after fine-tuning
• 550 MB RAM usage
• Works 100% offline

But here's the real genius:

Google calls it the "Traffic Controller" approach.

Simple tasks? → Handled locally (instant + private) Complex tasks? → Routed to cloud AI (when needed)

Best of both worlds.

What can it actually do?
→ "Set alarm for 7 AM" ✓
→ "Turn off living room lights" ✓
→ "Create meeting with Sarah tomorrow" ✓
→ "Navigate to nearest gas station" ✓
→ "Log that I drank 2 glasses of water" ✓

All processed locally. All private. All instant.

The honest limitations:

→ Can't chain multiple steps together (yet) → Struggles with indirect requests → 85% accuracy means 15% errors → Needs fine-tuning for best results

But that 58% → 85% accuracy jump after training?

That's the unlock.

Why should you care?

This isn't about one model.

It's about a fundamental shift:

OLD thinking: Bigger AI = Better AI
NEW thinking: Right-sized AI for the right job
A tiny 270M model trained for YOUR app can outperform a general 7B model.
While using 25x less memory. While running completely offline. While keeping all data private.

The future of AI isn't just in data centers.

It's in your pocket.

And it just got a lot more real.

Want to try it?
→ Download: ollama pull functiongemma
→ Docs: https://t.co/zDrncdetbr → Model: https://t.co/l49KjOtIzD

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[Indranath Mukherjee @indranath]

The awesome folks at @DelhiQuizClub have finally locked in a venue, and I’ll be hosting this quiz on Hindi cinema this Sunday. If you’re around the NCR, come join us at FMS, North Campus at 11 AM. Cash prizes for top 3 teams. Entertainment for everyone.

[Tarang @tarang108]

@JulianGoldieSEO n8n

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

No title defence is over after nine league games, but Liverpool’s attempt feels like it is heading that way quickly.

From a side that was so assured and calm last season, Arne Slot’s team couldn’t look further from the unit that strolled to the Premier League title.

🔗 https://t.co/ecWtGsrTDn

[Gareeb Scientist @gareebscientist]

THIS IS NOT CHINA!!
But a startup from India making world record Drone Swarm shows - @BotLabDynamics

I visited them and filmed a bunch of behind the scenes of how their drones are made, their eletronics, software, link in 1st reply 👇🏼

[Tarang @tarang108]

@EarthAccounting @YouTube @grok is this true

[Aaditya भारत (བྷཱ་རཏ) Tiwari @aaditya_bharat1]

At @Columbia , @ColumbiaIGP is organizing a seminar on 'The India-Pakistan conflict' which sparked controversy after its organizers equated “Hindu nationalism in India” with “Islamism in Pakistan’s military-intelligence”. This drew widespread criticism from Indian community.

[David Fickling @davidfickling]

How did the US invent solar power and dominate it for 60 years, before giving it up to China over the past decade?

The answer is, IMO, quite different to the stories we have told ourselves in recent years. And it has important lessons for the future.🧵

https://t.co/uj1bwFgYZA

[Tarang @tarang108]

@PatForanCTVNews @PatForanCTVNews I had two ebikes stolen in less than a year. The police did absolutely nothing.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Is this how flat earthers think the attack on Pearl Harbor happened?

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.

Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦‍♂️

[Tarang @tarang108]

@duduasarkar @RogersHelps When did you move to Canada? 😳