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Re:Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM by th234oi204234 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:13AM (#47287346)
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.

Re:Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM by petesergeant on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:17AM (#47287374)
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