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.
Epic Games reportedly delayed its Disney shooter and told staff "no more hand-written code." What Bloomberg reported, what Epic said, and what is unconfirmed.
FERC rejected most of PJM's large-load plan on Oct 9, while Entergy reportedly warned Amazon of grid cuts. What is verified, what is claimed, what it means.
Microsoft researchers say long-running agents get stuck in idea basins. Fork-and-Flush clears chat context and beat best-of-4 by 44.4%. What to copy.
Z.ai unveiled GLM-Legal, a legal agent model on GLM-5.3-Flash with a 19.2% Harvey LAB all-pass rate. Access is gated. What is claimed vs verified.
Andrej Karpathy says about 5,000 people have internal frontier AI access while 75% of the world barely used LLMs. What he said and what is unverified.
Lemo-Opuscar is an MIT Claude Code skill with 43 film styles that renders short films as code with Opus 5.5. Setup, cost, limits, comparison.
Reuters says McDonald's uses machine learning to recommend prices at 14,000 restaurants. A class action followed; McDonald's says AI does not set prices.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full for coding and agents. Wonder costs $4 input and $20 output per million tokens; Full needs Muse Code.
Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC AI is less regulated than milk and wants kill switches, victim notices and independent sign-off.
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-gen AI chip: 40% more tokens per megawatt than GPU systems, production rollout in 2027. What is confirmed.
Microsoft Research StudentSim trains per-student LLM simulators; a chess tutor rewarded by it hit 90.5% expert-rated accuracy vs 71.6% with GPT-5.4.
OpenBMB MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B is an Apache-2.0 vision MoE with 13+ tok/s on iPhone 17 Pro Max. What is verified, how to run it, and caveats.
