Vishnu Madhavan Pillai

Entrepreneur | Co-Founder | Turning Conversations into Intelligence | Professional Rabbit Hole Diver

[Vishnu Madhavan Pillai @tryVishnu]

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[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

All of my childhood punishments have become my adult goals: Eating vegetables,
Staying home, Taking a nap, Going to bed early.

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

My year is progressing as planned.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

To repeat: Messi.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Messi.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Toddlers are basically little scientists just with terrible research methods.
Research question: WHAT IF I…

[Sakana AI @SakanaAILabs]

Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API.

Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.

Try it: https://t.co/hhO6qTawgb 🐡

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

40% of fatherhood is walking around the house, turning off lights.

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Day 1 of vibecoding

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Today's Telegram ban is proof of why an indigenous social media or messaging app can never grow in India.

If @durov was Indian, he would be in jail along with his entire team and his entire infrastructure seized because a question paper was supposedly leaked on Telegram. It would have taken a few months to get bail. Line of FIRs stretching to Kanyakumari. Court cases dragging on for a decade or more. TV channels would have gone to town with all kinds of consipracies of how Soros is involved.

We have vaguely written laws, open to the worst interpretation and bureaucratic overreactions. It's not a stable foundation for anyone to build on.

The same applies to now AI. Anyday someone will be offended in this country by anything an indigenous AI generates in text or images and the founders can find themselves in jail and fighting court cases.

[Aryannn @relatablehuyrrr]

When I was a kid, I looked at the toys, Now I look at the man selling them.

[Tarun Raju @btarunr]

This could have been a 256-bit AES encrypted ZIP file.

[Harshdeep Rapal @harshdeeprapal]

If only Indian government was as obsessed with AI as it is with Ethanol blending.

[Vishnu Madhavan Pillai @tryVishnu]

C'mon man. I understand film stars are getting elected to run governments but why does everything have to be filmy now.

If it really was just a stupid phone call away why was it waiting for this long?

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

🚨 STUDENTS : Sir, IRCTC website is buggy especially its captcha.

Ashwini Vaishnav immediately called Software Team 😳

"Hello, All Students are demanding New IRCTC website. Please Launch it within 30 days. It should be ready by 15th July" 😅🔥

[Vishnu Madhavan Pillai @tryVishnu]

In my humblest possible opinion, with all possible due respect, this is:

Bullshit.

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

The most advanced AI models needs 50/60b $, huge investments in Hyper cloud, and many years! No country apart from US/ China can arbor do it like them. People who comment loosely need to understand this

[Vishnu Madhavan Pillai @tryVishnu]

Govt backed Indian AI is scary because soon it'll have caste based token reservations. 🫠

[Aravind @aravind]

Today, with the US banning some frontier models from foreign access, it is a wake up call for India. By 2030 India needs to run on own frontier AI models, OS & Apps, and digital currency. Or 2030s may become the new 1730s - if you know what I mean.

[Vishnu Madhavan Pillai @tryVishnu]

A bit funny how Indian IT companies are suddenly looking for the Govt to help them build AI. After years and years where they spent peanuts on research and billions on useless share buybacks and dividends.

I am sure they're still clueless what they'll build even if someone gives them an Indian Fable 5.

[Piotr Pomorski @PtrPomorski]

Someone put Fable 5 on the pirate bay, 3.4TB 😂

[sphinx @protosphinx]

Sir, they have blocked access to the very AI models you said we should share instead of build

[Vishnu Madhavan Pillai @tryVishnu]

I think the Chinese were distilling it like crazy and the Muricans found out. 😂

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ