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.
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.
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.
ReplaySSM from NVIDIA and Tri Dao caches SSM inputs instead of state: up to 1.8x kernel speedups and 2.1x speculative throughput on hybrid models.
Ondas and Palantir formed Regna AI to build fine-tuned open-weight models that governments own and run on drones at the edge. What is announced.
OpenCode 2.0 adds Code Mode, background subagents, 80+ internal plugins and a new SDK on one shared server. What breaks and how to upgrade safely.
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar called the OpenAI Hugging Face hack a configuration error and a defective product. What OpenAI and METR documented instead.
QGIS merged QEP 428 on Oct 7, 2026: no AI contributions. Why maintainers did it, the scope questions left open, and what other projects can learn.
Replica is an MIT set of 11 Claude skills that reverse-engineer, rebuild, test and rebrand an app. Install steps, workflow and legal limits.
Subquadratic launched SubQ Snap, a decision model that scores fixed answers over 384K tokens in under a second for 100K inputs, at $0.05 per million.
