"OmG iNdiA 🚀🚀🚀"

Another example of disingenous hopium being peddled by VCs. Total BS that boils my blood as an Indian founder.

This guy, who has never founded or built a company in India and has enjoyed the perks of SF all his life, has the audacity to tell Indian founders that building in India is a "mindset" issue.

In a country that still doesn't have 24/7 power and clean 24/7 tap water (not even in Bangalore), this guy says you should build deep tech. The delusion is off the charts.

We don't even have local chip manufacturers, everything we do is pure electronics assembly, but we should dream of competing with OpenAI?

I'd love to see how many Indian startups he will actually fund instead of waxing eloquent about self belief and desire.

Seen a lot of bullshit AI hype in India being peddled by South park commons (this guy) and from People+AI (new pet project from Nilekani sir).

I actually interviewed for people+AI and got rejected a year ago. What do I see them building and promoting today? A mental health app, a food label reading app, and a goddamn captcha recognition project. Are you fking serious?

Every project in people+AI is basically funded startups and large companies funding their own PR, research and work through them. Probably paying program members/interns peanuts in compensation.

Never have I been more certain that India has already lost the AI race, and all we're going to get is chillar projects and miniscule funding that won't actually lead anywhere.

If you want to build something substantial in AI, please go to SF for the love of God. Don't fall for the "make AI in India" bullshit. It is pure PR and hype, zero substance. We will never be able to compete with what's being built in SF, we're simply too far behind and without any money or resources.

Think I'm wrong? Name 5 Indian AI products you use everyday. Or 10 groundbreaking Indian AI projects that got funded in the last few years that you know of.

/Endrant