Going vocal with local on LLMs; and other top tech, startup stories this week
Hi, this is Pranav Mukul in New Delhi. In early 2022, following the Russian ‘special operation’ in Ukraine, the West, led by the US, began imposing economic sanctions on its old Cold War adversary. And, with big tech companies playing a key role in raising these barriers, the narrative of a ‘splinternet’ started to gather steam.‘Splinternet’ refers to the balkanisation, or fragmentation, of the internet into smaller factions based on localised interests that could be either economic, religious, political, or even…