Instinct Burns More on LLMs Daily Than Its Entire Funding Round: No 'Experimentation Capital' in India
NirantK · x · 2026-10-02
Nirant relays a founder conversation suggesting Instinct spends more on LLM inference in a single day than its entire funding round, concluding that India's ecosystem has no "experimentation capital" for AI startups — which is why products like Swiggy's Crew couldn't be built there.
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