Peak XV Raises $1.3B to Fuck Around with AI in India
Oh brilliant. Just fucking brilliant. Peak XV—because apparently naming yourself after a mountain makes you less of a wanker—has managed to scam $1.3 billion out of limited partners who probably think “AI” stands for “Absolutely Infinite returns.” They’re “doubling down” on AI in India, which is VC-speak for “we missed the first wave of actual innovation, so now we’re throwing money at any bastard with a GPU and a PowerPoint deck.”
The global VC rivalry they’re babbling about? It’s a fucking pissing contest. You’ve got Sequoia, Accel, Tiger Global, and every other shark in a Patagonia vest circling Bangalore like it’s the last free buffet on Earth. They’re all trying to out-dumb each other, funding AI startups that promise to “revolutionize” things like… wait for it… customer service chatbots and automated PowerPoint generation. Because that’s exactly what humanity needed—more soulless corporate diarrhea, but this time written by a fucking algorithm.
This article reads like a press release written by someone who’s been sniffing their own unicorn farts. “AI-native companies”? “Frontier technology”? Listen here, sunshine—slapping “AI” on your pitch deck doesn’t make you Tony Stark. It makes you a wanker with an AWS account and delusions of grandeur. Most of these startups will be dead in 18 months when everyone realizes their “proprietary model” is just ChatGPT with a fucking mustache drawn on it.
Meanwhile, actual Indian engineers are watching their cost of living skyrocket because these VC arseholes think “disruption” means pricing locals out of their own fucking city. But hey, at least we’ll get another 50 apps that can generate Bollywood-themed deepfake nudes or whatever the fuck passes for innovation these days.
The real kicker? Half this money will go straight into NVIDIA’s pockets for GPUs that’ll mostly mine cryptocurrency and render furry porn. But sure, let’s call it “accelerating India’s AI ecosystem.” I call it “accelerating the transfer of wealth from gullible investors to graphic card manufacturers and Stanford dropouts.”
Anecdote: Some VC tried to pitch me their new “AI-powered IT support platform” last week. I asked if it could detect when someone was a complete fucking bellend. They said no. I told them my organic bullshit detector already had that feature, and it was pointed directly at them. They left. Good riddance.
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