Expert profile
Founder & AI Product Leader
Yash Thakker is a Generative AI expert with over 12 years of experience in product leadership and technical strategy. As the founder of explainx.ai, he has taught over 300,000 learners and built AI platforms serving millions of users globally. He specializes in Agentic AI, Multimodal RAG, and the intersection of LLMs with consumer hardware.
METR proposes embedded assessments of alignment, control and AI R&D speed-up at frontier labs: what is proposed, what it builds on, and its limits.
Micron's Taoyuan union voted 99% to strike; Taiwan's president urged talks at a new Taichung plant. What it means for HBM and AI memory supply.
Microsoft AI finished pre-training MAI-Base-2 (2.8T MoE, 80B active) on 16k GB200s. See the 4-12x efficiency claim, the recipe and the caveats.
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters for agents that read documents, charts and video.
Neon Realtime public beta: any SQL query becomes a live query inside Postgres, free during beta, one-command setup for coding agents. Limits listed.
B300 rental prices up 17 days to a record, per one post. Price of Compute shows $8.26 and Silicon Data $6.77; indexes differ. Claimed vs verified.
NVIDIA joined the EU AI in Science Enablers Initiative on Oct 15, 2026: 250 open models, free courseware, AI-factory compute, 35 supercomputers.
Nemotron-3.5-Rerank-8B is NVIDIA's open 8.38B multimodal reranker for vision RAG: 34 text languages, OpenMDW licence, how to run it.
NYC Comptroller Mark Levine asked Anthropic, in a letter reported October 15, to pause its IPO until it addresses AI safety, governance and pace risks. What is confirmed so far.
At an Oct 14 hearing OpenAI agreed not to use alleged Apple trade secrets and to image 14 employees devices. What was agreed, what is not confirmed.
A Lean proof of OpenAI's integer multiplication result in six days, plus a community race on the constant: claimed vs verified, and how to check.
OpenAI UK Ltd's 2025 accounts show 110 staff, £87.3m wages and £168m share awards. What £794,000 and £2.3m really measure, and what they do not.
