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Yash Thakker

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.

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3233 articles

Oct 12, 20269 min read

MiniCPM-V 4.7: A 35B MoE Vision Model That Runs on an iPhone

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.

Open ModelsOn-Device AIMultimodal

Oct 12, 20268 min read

NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Designs at OCP: MGX 1.2, DSX Software and Grid Specs

At OCP 2026 NVIDIA opened Vera Rubin rack designs via MGX 1.2 (250kW), Spectrum-6 102.4T switches, USFP optics and a grid resilience spec.

Yash Thakker

3233 articles

MiniCPM-V 4.7: A 35B MoE Vision Model That Runs on an iPhone

NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Designs at OCP: MGX 1.2, DSX Software and Grid Specs

ReplaySSM: NVIDIA and Tri Dao Cache SSM Inputs, Not State, for Faster Hybrid Decoding

Regna AI: Ondas and Palantir Launch a Sovereign Defense Model Company

OpenCode 2.0: Code Mode, Background Agents and a Shared Server, and How to Upgrade

Palantir CTO Calls the OpenAI Hugging Face Hack "Human Error": Claims vs the Record

QGIS Bans AI-Assisted Contributions: What QEP 428 Says and Why

Replica Skill: Eleven Free Claude Skills That Clone Any App, From Recon to Deploy

SubQ Snap: Subquadratic's Decision Model Reads 384K Tokens for $0.05 per Million

text-to-cad: The Open-Source Plugin That Gives Claude Code and Codex CAD Skills

Torvalds Used Claude Code to Write a Linux Page-Cache Patch: What the Branch Does

WE NEWS Invented Indigenous "AI Correspondents" to Rewrite Real Northern Reporting