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The First AI Market With 8 Billion Potential Users | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest AI
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- The Neon Show
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- Mar 6, 2026
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Summary
Will smaller AI models win over large language models? Sudarshan Kamath grew up in Mumbai, taught himself AI before most Indian companies were even hiring for it, and bought the domain "smallest.ai" for $100 in 2022, two years before the company existed. Today, he runs Smallest AI, a startup focused on real time voice AI. He started with self-driving cars, training large models and compressing them to run on vehicle hardware in real time. That's where he first saw what small models could do...