Sourav
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investing time & money into financial markets, future of work, gig economy and misfits — currently building @toolmakersHQ
bangalore
Joined November 2022
@256BitChris @arthur_hagend Nothing but ignorance and assumption that the world only works the way you think.
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dont fade yourself.
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few days ago, my feed was completely about "DEEPSEEK" , now it's all "Deep Research" well played OPENAI.
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@anushcache @srijanshetty when a company lists on a stock exchange, it agrees to follow stricter disclosure and reporting requirements. isn't getting listed then a net positive transparent approach rather than conflict of interest.
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while i remain to take a pessimistic look at India innovating on foundational models, i wish you the very best. also, I'd love to know your take on why you choose to deploy talent around innovating in foundational models instead of considering an approach like @AravSrinivas did with perplexity.
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Destinations can fade, and even journeys can become fuzzy memories. but how you’ve changed inside tends to endure. quoting Jimmy Carr, "its not the journey, it's the destination. it's neither, it's who you become in the journey"
"No matter what others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey" Weeks later and this film still haunts me. An absolutely defining film… that forces confrontation with so many ideas.
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@MrinaliniArora both matters. this is a good read.
DeepSeek just proved the 'worthless' GPT wrapper startups are actually the ones with real moats. A week ago, nothing was more LOW status than being a 'GPT wrapper' startup. But I think we're learning that's DEAD wrong. Turns out they were just early to the only game that matters While DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic and Microsoft battle over benchmark scores, these 'wrapper' companies have been quietly building the only moat that matters: interface loyalty. Because of how big owning the LLM is for national defense and the economy, the next breakthrough model is always 2 weeks away. DeepSeek launches today, someone else drops a better one tomorrow. But getting millions of people to make your product part of their daily workflow - that's the real barrier to entry. ChatGPT didn't win because it had the best model. It won because it was dead simple to use. And I think it has staying power because of that. This is why all those AI startups we dismissed are actually positioned to win. They're not competing on model performance - they're competing on being the default way humans interact with AI. Frontier models are becoming commodities. User habits aren't. While everyone obsesses over the next architecture breakthrough, the real game is being played in the interface layer. The moat isn't in the model - it's in being the tool people reach for without thinking. Technology advantage is temporary. Interface lock-in is forever. Keep shipping those wrappers, my friends.
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@Naina_2728 "Typical user of these apps is more like a price-sensitive student using it for essays than a generic adult doing search-like tasks." — Naval.
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