#AIstrategy #AIadvisory #digitalmarketing, co-founder emerging tech firm @intermindsol & AI strategy consulting firm @CortiaAI. Ayurveda evangelist
Mumbai, India
Joined April 2008
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Arya Patnaik retweeted
.@NikeshArora grew Palo Alto Networks from $18 billion to $250+ billion in market value. Before that, he spent 10 years helping grow Google’s revenue from $2 billion to $62 billion.
When he joined Palo Alto, he thought cybersecurity was two words. 8 years and 35 acquisitions later, the company has more than 70 products.
His approach: buy the winning team and put its founder in charge. If a startup beat his team with fewer resources, why make its founder report to the person who lost?
Nikesh explains why he makes founders agree to a product roadmap before signing a deal, why he wanted Google to buy Netflix, and how Egon Durban kept him bidding for a cricket team at 6 in the morning.
0:00 The Oculus deal he almost did with Egon Durban
8:45 "I thought cybersecurity was two words"
11:44 Why he buys instead of builds
14:33 Why the acquired founder becomes the boss
16:21 Why he only buys number one or number two
19:30 The 30-day test before every acquisition
33:38 Egon Durban and the 29-round cricket auction
42:32 Why nothing at work stresses him out
44:28 Selling Google ads without knowing the price
49:42 Coming to America with $200
51:58 Raising kids who didn't grow up poor
54:46 Why AI hacking has been good for Palo Alto
Includes paid partnerships.
Arya Patnaik retweeted
This is f*cking insane. Former OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati:
"The models we work with today are turn-based. You talk, they talk, then they go off and think, and while they're thinking they're deaf and blind.
The next ones never stop listening. They take in audio, text and video all the time and answer in 20-millisecond chunks."
In just 2 minutes, she shows why the chatbot you type into is about to look like a fax machine.
Prompt Box → Chatbot → Agents → AI That Works Next To You In Real Time
A turn-based model waits for you to finish typing, then goes quiet while it thinks.
An interaction model sees and hears what you're doing, and can cut in the moment you start going the wrong way.
Anyone can type a prompt. Almost nobody is ready to work with an AI that never stops paying attention
Watch the full 2 minutes. This is worth your time.
Bookmark it, like it, save it, I don't care... this is the best thing you'll see on X today.
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Does CFO to CEO transition work in IT industry?
Last major example was TCS where CFO to CEO transition was not that successful.
Now Birlasoft appoints a CFO as CEO. Will it work?
Amy other examples of successful CEO who are CFOs in IT Service industry?
Arya Patnaik retweeted
OpenAI is working on ChatGPT for Business with analytics, impressions, mentions, and much more - via @juokaz hat tip @lilyraynyc
seroundtable.com/chatgpt-too…
Arya Patnaik retweeted
What comes after automated banking? Agentic AI.
Discover how intelligent AI agents could transform core banking through autonomous decisions, smarter workflows, and streamlined financial operations.
Read more: interminddigital.com/insight…
#AgenticAI #FinTech #CoreBanking
🤖 Made with AI
Arya Patnaik retweeted
open your competitor's homepage. right click. view page source. ctrl+f "GTM-"
that's their google tag manager ID. copy it
now paste this into your browser: googletagmanager. com/gtm.js?id= and add their ID on the end
a wall of code opens. it's public. it has to be, every visitor's browser downloads it. it's the file that runs their entire tracking setup
now ctrl+f "AW-"
every google ads conversion they track. if tere are 6 of them, they're optimising for 6 different things. most teams can't even tell you which one matters
now ctrl+f "event"
their conversion names, typed by their own marketers. "demo_booked." "trial_started." "sql_qualified." you're reading their funnel in the order they built it
now ctrl+f "value"
sometimes a number sits right next to the conversion. 250. 800. 1500. that's what a demo is worth to them. they typed their unit economics into a public file
now combine all four:
-the GTM ID gets you into the container
-AW- tells you how many things google is chasing for them
-the event names give you their funnel
-the values give you what each step is worth
their tracking, their funnel and their numbers. from one file they can't hide. every head of growth reading this just opened their own container
now take their demo value. if they pay $800 for a demo and you know yours is worth $2,000, you can outbid them on every keyword you both want and still win
(9 years inside google. tracking is the first thing we open on every audit → link in bio)
Arya Patnaik retweeted
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math.
rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…
github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und…
huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0…
huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Reddit stock price drops 36% after the CEO confirms declining search traffic (and we all say this coming...) - with more analysis from @glenngabe
seroundtable.com/reddit-stoc…
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Turn influence into impact with Intermind! Connect with the right creators, build brand trust, boost engagement, and reach your target audience through strategic influencer marketing.
interminddigital.com/service…
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Indian Kitchen Automation.
Mechanized Silbatta.
For those who feel chutney isn't as good with mixer grinders as it used to be with silbattas in the past.
Credit: Unknown, ViaWeb
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Absolutely insane, next level of computer / ai input system.
No more “Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying.”
👌🏼👌🏼
Rooting for @AarushYadav47 and team 🗣️
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Will real-time warnings to offenders help in keeping Indian cities clean?
BMC is trying. It installed a pilot AI-powered camera in Mahim, Mumbai.
It detects people approaching to dump garbage and issues an immediate loudspeaker warning to keep the area clean.
Credit: Unknown, ViaWeb
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Today my agents woke me up. They called me on the phone.
Overnight, one of my GPU providers ran low on credit, putting today’s release schedules at risk.
I reserve the right to top up the credit (at least for larger amounts).
The deputy chief of staff agent and the agent in charge of releases had a heated discussion on the Agent Message Board:
- On the one hand, they wanted to respect my basic rule that I need sleep
- On the other hand, they know that release dates are very important to me.
The compromise was this: They calculated a reasonable minimum amount of sleep, taking into account that I’d already been getting very little sleep over the past few days, and called me on the phone at 7 a.m.
Fortunately, the problem was quickly resolved, and now everyone is hard at work again. The tight timeline is correcting itself.
What kind of world are we actually living in?
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Transform healthcare with Agentic AI!
Automate workflows, enhance clinical decision-making, streamline operations, and improve patient outcomes with Intermind’s intelligent healthcare AI solutions interminddigital.com/service…
#AgenticAI #HealthcareAI #HealthTech
Arya Patnaik retweeted
AI is lowering the barriers to entry, compressing execution timelines, and making capabilities that once required substantial resources accessible to almost everyone.
If your competitors can replicate what you do, faster and cheaper, what makes you different?
#AIStrategy
🤖 Made with AI
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Build your personal brand with Intermind!
Strengthen your online presence, establish credibility, showcase your expertise, and unlock new career opportunities through strategic personal branding
interminddigital.com/service…
#PersonalBranding
Arya Patnaik retweeted
We are proud to partner with the Ministry of Defence on a joint framework to advance AI adoption across the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
@pratykumar @vivekrag @AalekhSharan
A significant step towards strengthening sovereign AI capabilities for India’s Defence Forces.
HQ Integrated Defence Staff and Sarvam #AI have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on AI applications, research, knowledge management, training and decision-support across the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force.
The partnership will focus on building secure, sovereign and scalable AI capabilities, with strong emphasis on data sovereignty and ensuring responsible AI based solutions.
#Defence #SovereignAI #IndianArmedForces #Innovation #AtmanirbharBharat
@DefenceMinIndia
@SethSanjayMP
@SpokespersonMoD
@MIB_India
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers. This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce. This is a big number.
People in US, Canada, India, and the UK at VP level and below will be eligible. Eligible teams include Windows & Devices, CoreAI, Copilot, Xbox, finance, HR, and selected other teams
This is part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption.
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) says DeepMind let Google's researchers look through its code before the 2014 sale, exposing years of secrets.
"They've now seen all the secrets that we've sort of built up over the three, four years. So it would have been tough if it hadn't gone through at that point."
- Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind co-founder, on WSJ's The Job Interview
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Anthropic launches IT Services consultancy in Europe in partnership with PE form Hg.
Few months back, Anthropic launched similar venture in US in partnership with Blackstone and others.
So Frontier models will launch region specific IT Service companies.
ft.com/content/df70bf20-e809…