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⏭️ Forward Deployed: Voice AI on what works in 2026
- ▶ 21:53 unnamed speaker Uh, but in terms of, like, cascaded, yeah, we see, like, a lot of demand in, so we have a lot of presence in India, so we see, like, a lot of demand from India. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ▶ 18:54 Anjney Midha And so, uh, I grew up in this city called Chennai in the south of India, and when people die, you dance on the street.
- ▶ 47:32 Anjney Midha I, I went to this boarding school called Rishi Valley in India, which is like this, uh, bird preserve, like, 350 acres of, of bird preserve in, in rural India, and there was no technology for seven years. 2 times in the scene
⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 27:06 Omar Sanseviero Yeah, yeah, and to hire someone in India, so those are, like, two locations.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 21:33 Ivan Burazin And then you'd be have like India, Brazil, China, like that would be there.
AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- ▶ 1:10:53 Mikhail Parakhin The funny thing, I mean, the, the most interesting anecdote is that Sydney was first shipped, uh, in India for, uh, and, uh, it was, uh, not noticed for a long time.
⚡️ Reverse Engineering OpenAI's Training Data — Pratyush Maini, Datology
- ▶ 3:18 Pratyush Maini So we would just take like, we took some exam, uh, example questions from JEE, which is like an important Olympiad, uh, like an exam in India.
World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- ▶ 1:01:56 Pim de Witte So for instance, um, we want to work with universities to build like negative event prediction models for maybe like trucks in India on all the truck data where all these crashes occur.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 8:07 Vivek Ravisankar I grew up mostly in India, and I moved here to start HackerRank, and we were the, um, first Indian-based company to get into Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning
- ▶ 3:01 Raaz Dwivedi My background is, I mean, I, I grew up in India.
[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)
- ▶ 6:16 Nikhil Abraham We just, and we had moved from, like my, me and my co-founder, we had moved from India to Palo Alto and we were actually just missing really high quality Indian food here.
Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
- ▶ 16:05 Kwindla Hultman Kramer So like Clevo in India, where Twilio doesn't have great coverage, like can't, for regulatory reasons, can't do phone numbers and stuff.
Best of 2024 in Agents (from #1 on SWE-Bench Full, Prof. Graham Neubig of OpenHands/AllHands)
- ▶ 7:49 Graham Neubig Uh, the countries to consider are the USA, Japan, Germany, and India. 2 times in the scene
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 3:27 Soumith Chintala Like, I grew up in India, um, I didn't have internet for, for a while, uh, and, in college actually I didn't have internet, uh, except for, like, GPRS or whatever.
- ▶ 1:00:14 Soumith Chintala Like, maybe, like, it's open source, but it has a commercial license, and I'm a student, like, in India. 2 times in the scene
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 5:46 Steve Yegge They, uh, they didn't work in India either, and it was primarily because of bandwidth reasons, and, and smaller phones.