Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

Managing Partner @SakaVentures. NYC & India. Investing in seed startups targeting large global markets. Previously @500GlobalVC, @TLabs, @SSCGlobeOp. pjain.me New York, NY Joined April 2008

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

7 hours ago

@RajanAnandan Congratulations Rajan! Looking forward to an autographed copy soon :-)

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a day ago

@vijayshekhar It’s pretty obvious the frontier model providers are feeling the heat and are trying very hard to maintain a monopoly. They’re going to use all tactics possible to do so.

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India Converted Half of Asia Without an Army. One of the largest cultural expansions in history was carried out almost entirely by merchants waiting for the monsoon wind to change. Over roughly a thousand years India gave much of Asia its religions, its epics, its scripts and its ideas of kingship, using convoys timed to the monsoon's twice-yearly reversal rather than armies. Buddhism set aside caste and the food laws that made travel among strangers difficult, and it moved east in the holds of merchant ships until, by one count, China had thirty thousand monasteries and close to two million monks. The courts of Southeast Asia adopted Sanskrit, Indian law and Indian statecraft by choice, judging it the best system on offer to a king who wanted to look legitimate at home and abroad. The former Thai capital Ayutthaya took its name from Ayodhya, the city of Rama. Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument on earth, is a working diagram of the Indian cosmos, its moat standing for the ocean that surrounds Mount Meru. The era's other great power took a different route. China's Confucian order required a foreign ruler to acknowledge the emperor as his superior before exchange could happen, tribute, not trade. The ports of the region answered to Chinese demand while its temples, script and kingship were Indian-influenced. It wasn't wholly peaceful. The Indianised kingdoms fought each other readily enough. What the pattern lacked, for the better part of a thousand years, was an Indian conqueror. I've written up the full story, with sources and further reading. Link to essay in the comments below.

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

4 days ago

@vardhankoshal Local agent install using self hosted models

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Nick Collins @nickcollins1953

a week ago

Pythagoras never claimed to have invented his theorem. Indian altar-builders had been using it in the Sulba Sutras a thousand years before he was born, to size fire altars for Vedic ritual. He was born on Samos to a Sidon-based merchant father and reportedly lived in India for several years, according to Apollonius of Tyana.

Nick Collins @nickcollins1953

2 weeks ago

Greek philosophy is downstream of Indian philosophy, transhipped through Phoenician ports. Around 950 BC, Hiram of Tyre and Solomon of Israel signed a treaty to send joint fleets down the Red Sea to the Gujarat coast, and for a full century the ships ran on a three-year cycle.

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

2 weeks ago

It’s definitely much slower and at times, it is dumber than a cloud model at some tasks but I expect this to change as I try other models and inference engines. Currently running oMLX and it’s been better than LM Studio

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

2 weeks ago

easy to follow recipe PDFs from videos, travel planning, dossier on the people and companies I have calls with the night before and a reminder 30 minutes before the call.

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

2 weeks ago

I finally took the time and now have @NousResearch Hermes running on only local models. @deepseek_ai V4 Flash on a M3 Ultra w/256GB as the orchestrator and @Alibaba_Qwen 3.8 on a M4 Pro w/48GB.

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

2 weeks ago

@MotwaniSuhas Nice to hear you’re having a good experience with it. I’m sticking to Hermes with mostly local LLMs because of privacy. There is definitely a trade off.

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

2 weeks ago

2026 hasn’t been a great year for 80’s New Wave artists in concert 😩 music.apple.com/us/playlist/80…

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

3 weeks ago

@StephNass Name and shame the “accelerator”.

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Pankaj Jain 🖖 @pjain

3 weeks ago

IMO junior consultants/college grads will see fewer job openings and pressure on starting salaries while experienced professionals who know how to think and have done, will see their demand rise significantly. Consulting may be the new “retirement” gig for many but far fewer junior consultants will be needed by the McKinseys and Bains of the world.

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Wheely @wheely

a month ago

New York City runs a warrantless geofence search the size of the entire city. Every ride-hailing trip — pickup and drop-off within 3 feet — logged forever. No warrant. No suspicion. We asked the Second Circuit to strike it down for black cars and limos. wheely.com/en/newsroom/wh…