Dhruv Rathee's Startup AI Fiesta Roasted By 'Tech Bros' Of X, Here's Why
Dhruv Rathee, a popular YouTuber from India with over 29.5 million subscribers, took to his channel by the same name on August 17 to inform his audience about a startup he had built with the help of his team. Called AI Fiesta, the AI tool will assist users with a platform that brings all the market-leading AI tools in one place. This will lead to a hasslefree experience wherein a user can ask queries to all the AI chatbots at once and use the most appropriate response to their query, Rathee stated.
However, Rathee's startup has come into the radar of the tech community on X who have scrutinised the YouTuber's startup, reducing his startup to a college project. But why?
In the introduction of his video, Rathee admitted that the reason behind building his startup wasn't conceived like a typical 'billion-dollar idea" or something that would shock the world. Instead, he chose something that he used daily – AI.
He then stated that he has identified two problems in the AI revolution in India, one being the premium pricing of the popular AI model subscriptions.
The average person in India found it difficult to afford these, he added. An average individual premium monthly subscription costs anywhere from USD 20 to 30. He then asserted that the free versions of the available powerful AI tools were restricted and downgraded. According to his survey, 73% of people who had attended his AI Masterclass and ChatGPT course had used the inferior, less powerful free versions of the AI tools, he discovered.
The second reason, a problem he identified, was that the top AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok, made a set of unique errors, making fact-checking difficult for his YouTube videos. This, he said, occurred because the AIs were trained on different datasets.
He stated that there wasn't a single AI tool that stood out and delivered on all fronts. For instance, Claude AI's written language seemed more natural than what ChatGPT produced. This led to multiple subscription purchases and hefty monthly expenses.
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To address these two problems, he developed an AI tool that integrated the popular AI tools, helping users interact with all the AIs on a single platform to fetch the most desirable responses to their queries.
AI Fiesta, his startup, brought all the powerful AIs in one window at a fraction of the price, he added.
He priced AI Fiesta's monthly premium subscription at Rs 999. A yearly package would set you back by Rs 9,999.
Rathee's AI Fiesta, which is already live, has received mixed reactions and reviews from his audience and critics.
'See I'm a researcher and content writer. I actually use AI tools like 4 and 7 for researching and refining my scripts. And honestly, even though I earn a good amount of money, paying for all those AI tools every year wasn't really feasible for me. But this feels like a game changer (sic)," a commentor wrote on Rathee's YouTube video that has been viewed over 4.6 million times at the time of publishing this story.
However, people on X were mostly critical of Rathee's startup idea. They criticised the lack of innovation brought by Rathee's AI Fiesta and called it a college project presented in a startup wrapping.
Dhruv Rathee is back to scamming people again.– Almost every AI model runs on OpenAI's API, especially Gemini.– It is not even running the latest GPT-5 API as per his claim, it's actually running on the old GPT-4 API. pic.twitter.com/Fh044vNtxI
— sid (@immasiddx) August 19, 2025
Cloned @dhruv_rathee 's new startup AI Fiesta and open-sourced it. Use your own API keys to save about 200% on costs as compared. pic.twitter.com/ASvtTOxuHi — Kushagra (@i_kushagra) August 18, 2025
A user on X made an open-source version of AI Fiesta and claimed that their tool had more models than those integrated on Rathee's.
I just made an open-source version of @dhruv_rathee AI startup.> Even with more models 🙂
Link in comments pic.twitter.com/OzS2NQS8gy
— Humi (@byteHumi) August 18, 2025
'Dhruv Rathee made 100s of videos questioning Indian innovation & creativity. But when it was his turn to show some in his own startup, he straight up fumbled. Bro is literally reselling existing AI models and calling it a startup," a user wrote on X.
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OpenAI recently launched a Rs 399 monthly subscription for its ChatGPT Go aimed at Indian users. Its ChatGPT Plus plan costs Rs 1,999 per month. Mobile network provider company Airtel has offered Perplexity Pro for 12 months for free to its customers.
Also Read: ChatGPT Go India Launch At Rs 399 Per Month: 5 Key Questions Answered
Google Gemini also announced one year of free access to its pro version for students in India.
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