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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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3218 articles

Oct 15, 20269 min read

Apertus 1.5: Switzerland's Fully Open Model Gains Vision, Audio and Reasoning

Apertus 1.5 adds image, audio, 262K context and thinking mode to the fully open Swiss 8B and 70B models. Report summary.

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Oct 15, 202610 min read

Yash Thakker

3218 articles

Apertus 1.5: Switzerland's Fully Open Model Gains Vision, Audio and Reasoning

Apple and Meta Team Up on Muse Spark Open: What the Mac Studio Partnership Means

Apple Shows 800B-Parameter Models Running on Four Mac Studios With MLX and RDMA

Plan or Retrieve First? Apple's Study of How Agents Should Find Tools Among 47,000 APIs

Apple's Selection-Based Reasoning: Small Search Agents That Pick a Thought Instead of Writing One

Apple CEO Ternus on Memory Shortage and Chinese Chips: "All Options Should Be on the Table"

AWS Trust in Depth: Scope, Know, Bound, Observe for Autonomous AI Agents

AI-DLC from AWS Labs: Gated Workflows for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Kiro

Bluesky's Attie Adds 'Social Vibe Coding': Build Sites, Games and Quizzes on AT Protocol

Brave Leo Now Encrypts AI Chats End to End: How OHTTP, NEAR AI TEEs and GLM 5.3 Flash Keep Brave Out

Capsem: An Open-Source VM Sandbox for Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Codex

Celebrity AI Deepfakes on Instagram: Mia Goth Case, Meta Labels and YouTube's Likeness Tool