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.
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton co-founded Oak Lab (Toronto, Jul 2026) with Khurram Javed after Keen Technologies — OaK architecture, continual RL from experience, 20W trillion-parameter goal. explainx.ai maps the bet vs LLMs.
Jul 14, 2026: Tencent Hunyuan released 1-bit and 4-bit Hy3 GGUF builds for llama.cpp with MTP — 295B MoE on a single 128GB-class GPU. explainx.ai maps VRAM tiers, copy-paste flags, DGX Spark benchmarks, and RTX 3060 reality checks.
Jul 13, 2026: Stanford Digital Economy Lab released "We Must Act Now" — 16 Nobel laureates, Jeff Dean, Jack Clark, Acemoglu, and 200+ signatories warn AI may transform the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution. explainx.ai maps the letter vs SF protests, Hassabis, and Amodei policy.
Jul 13, 2026: Xiaomi-Robotics-U0 (38B, arXiv:2607.11643) unifies image/video generation with multi-view embodied synthesis — beats GPT-Image-2.0, ranks #1 on World Arena, lifts π₀.₅ OOD manipulation from 36.9% to 63.2%. explainx.ai maps the data-engine thesis.
Communications of the ACM (Jul 7, 2026) on Thomas Icard, Atticus Geiger, and causal abstraction — plus Goodfire's "Arithmetic in the Wild." explainx.ai connects academic mechanistic interpretability to Anthropic's J-lens and J-space.
Agnes 2.5 Pro from Singapore Sapiens AI claims 82.7 SWE-bench Verified, 78.7 Multilingual — free OpenAI-compatible API. explainx.ai maps internal evals vs Opus 4.8, GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4, and what is not open source.
Verasight found 69% support for a 50% AI stock transfer to a public fund. We examine the poll wording, Sanders bill, and economic trade-offs.
@thsottiaux Jul 12: OpenAI temporarily removes 5-hour usage cap on Plus, Pro, and Business — weekly limit only. Another quota reset + Sol efficiency fixes. explainx.ai maps launch-week resets vs Anthropic July 19 extension.
OpenAI merged ChatGPT and Codex into one desktop app with Chat, Work, and Codex modes. explainx.ai maps official help docs, shared usage limits, cloud vs local sync gaps, and vs Claude Cowork from r/codex developer reports.
Systima logged every request: Claude Code sends ~33k tokens before your prompt; OpenCode ~7k. Subagents, MCP, cache re-writes, and instruction files multiply the bill. explainx.ai on what enterprises should log and control.
Physicist Yuji Tachikawa reported Claude Fable broke a 6-month collaborative string theory deadlock with a non-trivial observation and SymPy verification code. explainx.ai maps the Jul 12 anecdote vs peer review, Claude Science, and Evans.
Destructive Command Guard blocks dangerous AI-agent shell commands before execution. Learn installation, packs, Codex support, limits, and rollout.
