India has no experimentation capital: one day of LLM burn exceeds a startup's whole round
NirantK · x · 2026-10-02
A founder says frontier labs spend more on LLM inference in a single day than an Indian startup's entire funding round. NirantK argues India lacks "experimentation capital," which is why projects like Viktor, Stilla, and Town didn't emerge there — and mocks critics who'd never risk $5M on such a bet themselves.
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