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.
Novo Nordisk adopts Anthropic's Claude Science to speed up drug discovery research, a major pharma validation of Claude's science-focused product.
NVIDIA's CUDA Rust lets developers write GPU kernels natively in Rust via cuda-oxide and cutile-rs, catching aliasing bugs the compiler would miss in C++.
SemiAnalysis testing shows NVIDIA Rubin NVL72 delivers 67x throughput per cost, exceeding NVIDIA's own published performance claims.
OpenAI supports US House bills addressing AI-assisted bioweapon risk, favoring narrow harm-specific legislation over broad frontier-AI rules.
OpenAI's new misalignment disclosure framework and its first six reports — what changed, what each incident shows, and what it means for builders.
Pangram's new Gmail AI labeler flags AI-generated emails with a claimed 1-in-10,000 false positive rate.
QuiverAI's Arrow 2 generates editable SVG vector art from text prompts, with a new Telos frontier tier and a developer API platform.
Rand Paul blocked John Kennedy's AI kill-switch bill requiring companies to build shutdown mechanisms into their systems.
Grok Build now has cross-session memory, letting SpaceXAI's coding agent retain project context between sessions instead of resetting each time.
A 4B model trained via off-policy distillation and agentic RL beats Postgres's own query planner by up to 81% on join-heavy SQL — full writeup.
Trump officials plan AI risk talks with China and tech CEOs before a Sept 24 summit — what's on the table and why it matters for AI builders.
Union Alpha, a stealth AI model with no confirmed creator, beat GPT-5.6 Sol on the DeepSWE coding benchmark with a 74% score.
