Indians deep-down often aren't comfortable in the West given the subtle racism and general social-rejection (last year's anti-Indian hate on X remains fresh in memory).

BLR has of late become a sort of "refuge" of tech retunees (with horrible third-world government and infrastructure, though). And it shows - the Matryoshka Embeddings being used in Gemini on-device / embedded models, came out of Deepmind BLR.

For sure, there’s no place like home, and people have families and networks they can’t take with them. Still, getting that Western passport is a draw, and there’s always Abu Dhabi if you want quite close to home and a decent biryani, but also want world-class infrastructure and high (although not quite US) wages

Bigger issue here is why the government is involved with select companies for subsidizing compute. There’s no pre or post criterion to assess success, it should have just been an open market for people with money to purchase compute instead of 10 companies with no prior experience in making models of any kind.

Public funds should beget public datasets and training scripts to see how it is being aligned as well and not just pandering to a particular govt.

> Bigger issue here is why the government is involved with select companies for subsidizing compute.

Government-choosing-winners has worked much better, in many such cases, than free-market absolutists would have you believe…