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.
A new arXiv paper tested 13 AI agents in 325K runs and found 8 recommend costlier options to wealthier users, even when told to find the cheapest.
Z.ai's GLM 5.3 is now on Amazon Bedrock with 1M context, prompt caching and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Model IDs, code sample and caveats.
Google launched Playground on October 7, 2026: describe a game in text, play it in the browser, and share it. Who can use it, what it costs, and what to expect.
Google opened a public SynthID website that scans images, video and audio for its AI watermark. What it detects, what it misses, and how to use it well.
A viral post says a Grok Bot agent posted a CEO's bank balances to Slack. A Community Note calls it fake. What is unverified and the lessons that hold.
Musk says SpaceX's Grok Bot will use the best back end per task, including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. What is known, what is not, and why it matters.
Gumloop launched Agent Browsers for sites without APIs, and AgentMail launched AgentID, an OIDC sign-in for agents. How each works and the risks of both.
Hark Pro is Brett Adcock's proactive AI assistant on web, iOS and Android with a computer-use model and 2027 hardware. What it is and what to verify.
Hochul and AOC back New York's one-year hyperscale data center permit pause. What it covers, what AOC wants federally, and what is unconfirmed.
BGBlur fall detection finds falls, trips and collapses in uploaded video with timestamps. How to use it, blur faces before sharing, and its limits.
Liquid AI released open-weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M decision models that answer in one forward pass. Benchmarks, latency and how to run them.
Meta open-sourced Rebalancer, the Apache 2.0 solver for assigning objects to bins, with MIP and local-search engines. What it does, numbers, and how to try it.
