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.
PhotoCraft is an early-alpha open-source Photoshop reimplementation in Rust with PSD support. What it does, what the claims mean, and what it cannot replace.
Strands Decider 2B is a 1.9B Apache-2.0 decision model: pointer head, 115 ms median on an RTX 3090, training data included. How it compares to Jev.
Surface RTX Spark Dev Box preorders open at $5,999 with 128GB memory and ships in November; Laptop Ultra is $2,599 from Oct 16. Specs and buyer advice.
AI gives you ten decent drafts in minutes. Use taste to cut to a few and judgment to pick one. A step-by-step guide with prompts, a rubric and a lab.
A benchmark reports Claude Opus 5.5 at 2.3x top human experts on research taste at 1/30 the cost. What it measures, the wide interval and the limits.
Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu says AI adds about 1.5% to GDP over a decade and replaces at most 5% of jobs. What he argues, what is checkable, and the policy asks.
Opinion: people now run teams of AI agents, but sites block browsers, Apple gates disk access and trust lags. Why delegation, not capability, is the bottleneck.
Reports say a Claude-found algorithm refutes the 3SUM and APSP hypotheses, with a Lean proof. What is claimed, what is unverified, and why it matters.
OpenAI made Codex Auto-review free for ChatGPT sign-ins. How the reviewer agent works, what it still blocks, config keys, and the limits you must know.
EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, code, images, video and audio into one vector space in 740M parameters, Apache 2.0. Specs, sizes, and how to try it.
Gamma 5 rebuilds the AI presentation tool around an agent, a freeform editor and thousands of templates. What changed, how to try it, and what remains unproven.
Gemma 4 plus BOTANIC-1, a plant DNA model, ranked a known melon variant first of 2,494 in about four minutes. What it shows and what it does not.
