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.
Mostik lets a 753B model hand hidden states to a 4B model, no text between them. The tweet says 80% accuracy at 20x speed — its own paper says something else.
NVIDIA signed a definitive agreement to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion. What the 8-K says, and what it changes for anyone pulling open weights.
Nvidia's AI Infra Summit runs Sept 15-17, 2026 — Ian Buck keynotes on agentic AI infrastructure: Vera CPU, Groq 3 LPX, BlueField-4.
New York City banned generative AI for public school students from pre-K through 8th grade, about 600,000 students. What changes.
RL post-training went open source in 2026. What Miles, SkyRL, prime-rl and OpenRLHF each do, what hardware they need, and if you should run RL at all.
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok AND Gemini all went down right after OpenAI posted "the stars are almost aligned." Here is what's actually confirmed as the cause.
Perplexity open-sourced Lily, a Rust inference engine built only for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon. Real ablation numbers: +89% prefill, 1.35x decode vs MLX-LM, and why speculative decoding made it 18% slower.
Pranos Fusion switched on PRAGYA, India's first private tokamak, in eight months. It is a plasma-control testbed — an AI story as much as energy.
A 130-digit prime factor of RSA-260 was posted on September 3, 2026. We checked it. Why your TLS is fine, and the impossible claim AI keeps repeating.
Sam Altman claimed one California almond uses more water than 38,000 ChatGPT queries. explainx.ai checks the math against per-prompt water research and explains why the comparison is misleading anyway.
The /show-me skill makes coding agents answer with trees, mermaid diagrams and annotated diffs instead of prose. What it does, and how to build your own.
Tether open-sourced offline translation models for 19 Sub-Saharan African languages that run on a phone with no internet connection.
