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.
Cognition acquired Interaction (Poke) July 23, 2026. Devin's maker now owns the first AI agent approved on Apple Messages. What it means, explained.
Cursor Router picks the right model per task automatically — trained on 600K+ requests, matching frontier quality at 60% lower cost.
DARPA's VENOM Autonomy Kit put F-16s into AI-controlled flight with a human still in the cockpit. What VENOM tested, how it differs from combat drones.
Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 unifies video, audio, and action prediction. FLUX-mimic robots are live-testing at Audi. What's shipping vs. coming later.
GigaToken is a Rust tokenizer claiming up to 1000x faster throughput than HuggingFace Tokenizers. How the speedup works and where it matters.
A viral WAIC video shows iFlytek's AI Blackboard turning handwriting into graphs and 3D geometry. Watch the demo and see what is real, AI, and unproven.
Nearly 200 startups sent Trump a letter July 22 opposing a Chinese open-weight AI ban. Here's what it asks for and what a ban would break.
Tibo Sottiaux teased a Codex reveal for July 24, 2026. Here is what is confirmed, what is speculation, and the five signals developers should watch.
Petals, a 2022 BigScience project for running Llama peer-to-peer, resurfaced on Hacker News in 2026. Why distributed LLM inference remains hard.
Peter Yang open-sourced /no-ai-slop, a free Claude skill that strips 20+ AI writing patterns while preserving your voice. ~1,000 stars in a day.
Substack launched an AI-writing detector powered by Pangram, scoring posts and comments as human, AI-assisted, or AI-generated. How it works.
Terence Tao published a ChatGPT conversation on the Jacobian conjecture counterexample. It shows how a world-class expert actually prompts AI.
