Building https://teapaw.org/t.co/1rriOKTpMc to make the internet usable for every user in India.
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Raoul Nanavati retweeted
After processing 100M+ minutes of Voice AI calls, Navana AI has seen what enterprise deployments actually demand at scale.
Most of Voice AI is going cloud. Navana built end-to-end for on-prem.
@rananava joined @nikkithashanker for a rapid-fire on where Voice AI is headed.
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India has an AI data problem that the rest of the world didn’t have to solve.
@rananava explains why India can’t simply scrape the internet and train models on language data that was generated organically over decades.
“The rest of the world had been seeding and generating data as a result of using the internet for the last 30 years in their language.”
“We have not been doing that for the last 30 years.”
“That option just doesn’t even exist today. And so you actually have to create the data.”
“We actually reached real people. We actually identified real domains that need the data. We went to domain experts.”
“And then you have data.”
@navanatech
Raoul Nanavati retweeted
🔴 LIVE NOW: The Offline Network — Stream 140
Building India’s AI, fintech and healthcare stack for everyday life.
Ft. @rananava, Kaushik Mukherjee and @primohap.
Watch now👇
The Founders Building India's Voice AI, Fintech & Healthcare Stack | Stream 140 teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1aKbdEqdZ…
Raoul Nanavati retweeted
Why are Indian companies not developing frontier models?
The answer is in economics, not talent. The biggest hurdle for an Indian company trying to develop frontier model is that right from the get go, it has to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI free plans + all Chinese open weight models.
Chinese models mostly flourished due to the demand from their domestic market which OpenAI/Anthropic couldn’t meet as they’re unavailable in China. This unmet demand created space for innovation.
China knows this story well, but here in India, we like unfettered, globalized free market, and that requires an upstart to compete with established companies from across the world.
If India is serious about the AI race, it needs to create a massive guaranteed market for domestic AI or else it’ll be economically irrational for any funder to underwrite a product in a highly competitive, already established market.
Raoul Nanavati retweeted
It's kind of cool that voice AI has now done 1000 Crores ($125M) of consumer loans in India.
I'm talking about the entire END-TO-END process till disbursal, just with voice AI in 6 different Indian languages. Done by a giant like @Bajaj_Finserv, and powered by Navana.ai
Every day, you're seeing global stories of massive GenAI-native inflections (users / revenue ramp ups).
We've been asking: Where will this play out in India?
We think voice AI in BFSI is where this takeoff is about to happen.
@GowriShankarNag @aaasandeep @rananava
Raoul Nanavati retweeted
Here are some glimpses from our second Colabs meet-up yesterday. This time, volunteers gathered to hear about Sunva, an intelligent communication assistant that makes communication more accessible for those with disabilities.
We also had an insightful talk by Raoul Nanavati, the co-founder of Navana.ai, a company that's making AI accessible for all Indians with speech recognition in all Indian languages.
@rananava
Raoul Nanavati retweeted
Sometimes you find a story so good it leaves you dumbstruck. This is one of those stories.
A story of ingenuity, courage, and the highest of stakes.
Thank you to @pramodkvarma for his trust, patience, and sacrifices for the country 🙏🏽
Only on Tigerfeathers 🐯🪶 (link in pic)
Raoul Nanavati retweeted
END OF DAY 16 OF #CLIMATEFAST
I continue to feel drained & lower & lower in energy...
Hence a final appeal to the Prime Minister of India.
Sharing the unfair treatment meted out to people of Ladakh on Safeguards under 6th Schedule of constitution.
4 years of dilly dallying and a No in the end... after making clear promises in 2 elections in written manifestos
#SaveLadakh #SaveHimalayas #SaveGlaciers #6thSchedule
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Cornell Tech students, faculty, and staff share how they want to use technology to improve society.
Raoul Nanavati retweeted
Proud to announce my new online class where I will teach ppl to click an unsubscribe link in a newsletter instead of replying "unsubscribe"
Come along product creators, designers! This one is going to be awesome. teapaw.org/BuddhaSource/status/74…
Check me out in the endless debate of carrier billing & its effect on #monetization: this weeks indian mavens @pgbiz teapaw.org/pgbiz/status/742639809…
#IndianMavens @und3rdg @shaileshprabhu @rananava @FrumiousBanders on the impact of carrier billing pocketgamer.biz/asia/mobile-…
hey @rrhoover check this out producthunt.com/games/electi… a fellow game developer in Mumbai @KaranKhairajani made it for you folks in the US! – at Mumbai, India