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.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 RL run is live-streamed at scale — ~2B tokens per step, 1568 prompts x 16 rollouts, fully async, open-sourced piece by piece.
Scott Aaronson relayed a rumor that AI labs, burned by the Navier-Stokes dispute, are sitting on major solved problems. Here's what's claimed.
Alibaba open-sourced its internal AI review CLI, claiming 33.9% precision vs Claude Code's 7.2% — on a benchmark Alibaba built and controls.
Anthropic launched Salesforce in Claude beta on Sept 15, 2026 — CRM data plus 37 pre-built sales skills, right inside a Claude conversation.
Free vs paid Claude courses, Anthropic's own certification, and live workshops compared honestly — costs, formats, and who each one fits.
China's BG-5 "Golden Dragon Fish" went viral as a "surveillance fish." The real story: obstacle-avoiding autonomy and multi-robot swarm coordination.
Claude Cowork and Chat merge into one assistant Sept 16, 2026 — plus new Claude Docs, Slides, and Design tools in beta on all paid plans.
Anthropic's Frontier Day founder video prompted a look at what Claude for Startups actually offers: eligibility, credits, and rate limits.
Cognition and AWS signed a multi-year deal to deploy Devin for legacy modernization, already purchasable via AWS Marketplace.
DeepSeek engineer Liu Shengyu's viral essay says AI won't take his job — but will end the hands-on kernel-optimization craft he mastered.
Diogo Almeida co-authored ChatGPT's RLHF work at OpenAI. Now he argues it was built for assistance, not automation — his case, in his own words.
Google DeepMind surveyed 637 scientists on AI use. The 7-hours-saved headline is real, but the report itself says the sample is not representative.
