Aakrit Vaish

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Activating AI in India

Mumbai, India activatevc.ai Joined February 2009

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Aakrit Vaish @aakrit Dec 3, 2025

I moved back to India in 2013 with a simple mission: to build AI for the country.

Since then, I've been incredibly fortunate to build Haptik, invest in 100+ startups, co-create TEAM for Mumbai and contribute to our sovereign AI strategy through the IndiaAI Mission. Today, all of it comes together in my next act.

Introducing Activate: India’s AI Venture Fund.

We believe AI in India will be built by technical crack teams. Activate is created for such founders, engaging with them well before company formation and investing $500k-$3M at inception.

With @177pc, the one & only person in the world I'd want to do this with.

It starts here. It starts now. It's time to Activate.

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Aakrit Vaish @aakrit Nov 3

We are shipping

Pratyush Kumar Verified account @pratykumar Nov 3

Open-sourcing our System 1 model Sarvam Prism, trained on Sarvam 105B. It pushes the pareto of accuracy v speed v calibration. Uses block-bidirectional attention, isolates options with a mask and shared positions, and a split attention kernel for fast inferencing.
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Aakrit Vaish @aakrit Nov 2

I recently met a senior researcher at Anthropic who told me that a big topic of conversation at their latest offsite was what careers they should pursue next.

They felt that most of the human work in AI research was already done.

Steve Jurvetson Verified account @FutureJurvetson Oct 31

🤖 The march of RSI
“A co-founder of Anthropic says it 'might be the most important technical trend in the world.' It’s a phenomenon known as 'recursive self-improvement,' or RSI, which roughly translates to AI building smarter AI.” — WSJ today

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Aakrit Vaish @aakrit Oct 23

It's amazing to see good people come together towards such an incredible mission.

I've known both @kevinweil and @manohar_paluri in different ways for a few years. Couldn't be more excited for them to join hands.

And thanks for having me as a small angel along the way :)

Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 Verified account @kevinweil Oct 22

💥 Introducing Warp Sciences, a new company applying AI and robotics to help the world develop new medicines faster.

We’ve raised a $215M Series A led by @lightspeedvp to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into the lab, and build scientific capacity here in America.

I co-founded Warp with my long-time friend @dpatil, FAIR co-founder @manohar_paluri, and drug hunter Sol Reisberg. The early team is full of incredible people like @bkspears9, who helped achieve Q>1 fusion at LLNL.
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Aakrit Vaish @aakrit Oct 8

Okay yeah confirmed anti-porfolio 😅

Gokul Rajaram Verified account @gokulr Oct 7

Fastest company ever to $1b annualized revenue

Nope it’s not Higgsfield or Cursor or Cognition.

Met a data company yesterday that did 0 revenue in November 2025 and 80m “in month revenue” in September 2026. They will hit $1b annualized from 11 months of being started. They are still under the radar so I can’t share who they are. Hopefully soon, with their permission.

I don’t make the rules.
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