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Times of India  

Arnab Ray is the author of "May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss" and "The Mine". Our software engineers have other priorities Now that a Chinese startup DeepSeek has produced a large language model that has cut the legs from under the hype factory of OpenAI and Nvidia, lopping off over $500bn in its market cap in one day, people are asking that old chestnut asked through centuries by underperforming parents to underperforming children: If Sharmaji’s son can do it, why can’t you? We are more concerned about reclaiming temples, decolonisation, triple talaq, waqf land, de-Brahminisation, un-patriarchy, correlation between abaadi and haq, social equity, whose behen is more ladli, handing taxpayer money to people who will vote for money, whether Kohli is better or Rohit, when is Bhai’s next picture coming out and saving the Kacha Badam girl’s new dance videos on our Chinese phones. Our idea of digital is the provision of low-end tech services to billable customers: 90-hour workweeks, not watching our wives on Sundays, and a bunch of Unclejis in their 60s who are our tech captains pontificating, young people these days…no work culture. China instead chooses to invest in technologies that will automate low-end tech services, doing to India what they did to Nvidia, so that we in India will be left with only Murthy’s simplicity and America’s Perplexity.

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The Hindu  

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Live Mint  

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India Today  

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Live Mint  

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Live Mint  

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Firstpost  

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Firstpost  

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Live Mint  

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Firstpost  

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The Hindu  

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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Live Mint  

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Firstpost  

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