22 · co-founder & ceo, https://teapawt.org/t.co/8u1mu77uBx @TheResidency 26' · @at_Altspace Fellow · incubated at @iTNTHub
Joined November 2022
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made my design/dev resource shelf public.
components, ui inspo, motion, shaders, weird visual tools, and sites i actually use when building.
stack.zmrish.com
Amrish retweeted
India practically exists on cinema. Ever wondered why?
It's not just entertainment. It's deeply embedded in their collective identity.
Indians don't just watch movies. They collectively consume, discuss, dissect and idolise them.
Every release becomes a family discussion, a debate among friends, a cultural event. Actors' personal lives, character arcs and off-screen personalities become subjects of public fascination.
Weirdly, Indians seem to obsess over cinema far more than people of many other nationalities. It almost becomes part of everyday life.
Cinema influences ideas of beauty, relationships, masculinity, politics, social norms and even career aspirations.
Actors become role models. Their popularity becomes political capital. Films become vehicles for ideology, propaganda and commercial interests.
Cinema doesn't have to create criminals to influence society. Its cultural influence goes much deeper.
Perhaps this also reflects a collectivist society where shared narratives and mass opinions often take precedence over individual thought.
We can appreciate cinema as an art form while questioning the influence it has on society. Both can coexist.
South Korea has produced some of the most violent, disturbing and morally complex films in cinema history. Oldboy, I Saw the Devil, Parasite, Memories of Murder. Yet it remains one of the safest countries in the world. Japan has the most violent anime and manga and has one of the lowest crime rates globally.
The data does not support the argument. Films do not create criminals. Broken systems do. Lack of education does. Bad parenting does. Blaming cinema is the easiest deflection from the real problems.
Someone who has built a career on 'analysing things' should know this before tweeting halfbaked takes to millions of followers.
Amrish retweeted
Agaram 2.5B is out. It's a Tamil-first language model we trained from scratch at @MuraiLabsHQ , our small non-profit lab. As far as we know, it's the first Tamil model trained from scratch that can call tools.
It chats in Tamil, Tanglish and English, translates, and can call tools. We're releasing the base model, chat model and GGUF files under Apache-2.0. You can download it and run it offline on your own laptop.
The first chat model had a four-day public preview. Seeing where it fell short with real users helped us decide what to work on. We rebuilt the fine-tuning around what we saw, using 222,662 records.
Thank you to everyone who spent time with that early version.
The video walks through the model. You can try it here:
hf.co/spaces/mechramc/agaram…
நன்றி 🙏
Amrish retweeted
@theresidency demo day. apparently i’ve been in bangalore long enough to have one of these now.
pitched @KenesisLabs on october 22, at @residencyBLR founders track showcase, powered by Lightspeed India
a few updates since the “got backed by the residency” post:
>finished our pilot with SPP India
>two LOIs signed
>a third under review
still plenty to figure out. but good to have more to talk about than what we’re planning to build.
we’re building ai agents for factory floors. cameras already see what’s happening. we’re making them useful while something can still be done about it.
the last few weeks have been factory follow-ups, building, and figuring out how to explain all of this in a few minutes on stage.
turns out the last part needs its own preparation.
met some really cool founders here. good conversations, a lot of laughs, and people i’m glad i got to spend these weeks with.
thank you @AadityaYuvraj , @NimishaChanda , M S Mihir and @rishabsg17 for backing us and putting this together.
@daniel_das07 , @dheekshithoff, Aswin. a lot behind what went on those slides.
now back to getting this into more factories.
Amrish retweeted
trying to build something interesting for the london startup scene.
inspired by @Londonmaxxing, @fooming86, @boardyai and @nomadtableapp (@jayvraavi).
the idea is to help founders, builders and operators find their people, make connections and get things done.
still early. would love feedback from people actually building in london, uk
should i launch a test version? 👀
Amrish retweeted
We're welcoming the best VC funds in India to come join us for @residencyBLR's Demo Day on 22nd Oct
Who's on stage:
>deeptech founders building in aerospace, biotech, energy etc
>consumer founders who've done $2M ARR & $200K pre-revenue in the US
Link: luma.com/4qcjcvp4?tk=0lb2pk
3 months ago, we were just building.
2 signed LOIs, a live factory pilot, and a lot more to figure out.
back to building kenesis 🫡
3 months after a @ChatGPT Pro grant, @zmrishh's team at @kenesislabs has:
• 2 signed LOIs
• A live factory pilot
• A @nasscomai Gamechangers Top 5 shortlist
They're using factory CCTV for safety and process insights. Codex helped them build faster.
Congrats to the team!
big thanks to @SiddhantSadangi for giving me 3 months of chatgpt pro
we’ve since signed 2 LOIs, with a third in review. Codex has helped our small team build so much faster at Kenesis.
really appreciate the support, man 🙏
Amrish retweeted
the final demoday is here!
> one already has $2M+ in sales.
> one is working on autonomous aircrafts
> one prev. ran a million-dollar company, and is already at $200k+ with this one.
> all of them are looking at a multi-billion-dollar outcome
showcasing 8 teams building across biotech, consumertech, hardware, physical AI and more!
watch them demo live on 22nd Oct at @residencyBLR final demo day in bangalore.
powered by @lightspeedindia | banking partner @IDFCFIRSTBank.
limited seats. link in the comments. come by!
mankind went from inventing the wheel to putting people on the moon, only to create WhatsApp for Windows.
the worst fucking app in the history of human civilization. its only job is to send messages and even that feels like asking too much.
Amrish retweeted
launched a model
accidentally served trillions of tokens a day
29.4% of the fortune 500 showed up
raised a really big series A from @a16z
it's been 3 weeks
we would like to sleep now
I'll give ₹1 to everyone who reposts this
Introducing Arcanoris.
Your customers stopped googling. They ask ChatGPT what to buy.
If AI doesn't name you, you don't exist.
Arcanoris shows what AI says about your brand, who it recommends instead, and exactly what to fix.
Free audit, no card, ~2 min → arcanoris.in
Introducing Arcanoris.
Your customers stopped googling. They ask ChatGPT what to buy.
If AI doesn't name you, you don't exist.
Arcanoris shows what AI says about your brand, who it recommends instead, and exactly what to fix.
Free audit, no card, ~2 min → arcanoris.in
Amrish retweeted
demo day 4 at @residencyBLR founders track
this week @joinef india team joined our weekly demo sync and residents presented across biotech, consumer hardware and defence, and everyone walked away with valuable feedback and a clear list of what to fix before next week.
thank you @iampbiswal and @BLRxZo team for making it happen. onwards 🚀
