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.
OpenAI is opening ChatGPT Ads self-serve buying in India as part of a four-region expansion. What Indian advertisers and marketers should know about inventory, the Go plan, and DPDP Act targeting limits.
OpenAI cut giant ChatGPT thread load time 94% in tests — 741 turns, 231 MB, 27.6s → 1.7s. Client-side history, not model speed.
Simon Willison vibe-coded a codex.tools reference snapshot — 232 tool interfaces, 44 skills, ~615k chars of skill source. explainx.ai maps what builders learn from it vs asking the agent, and why control-browser is a skill.
Code-as-World represents physical scenes as executable code so VLMs can reason quantitatively. The Aug 26 paper hit #1 on Hugging Face Papers with QuantiPhy SOTA.
Tencent Cloud CubeSandbox v0.7 adds cross-node pause/resume, CubeOps control-plane split, and faster networking — 11.5k GitHub stars, E2B SDK compatible, Apache 2.0.
Ethan Mollick's Aug 31 essay argues AI agency needs human checkpoints — approval, expertise, variance, and interest — using the Hugging Face incident as proof.
Aug 31, 2026: the European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA. What the four-month clock actually requires.
Aug 31, 2026: FSB Chair Andrew Bailey told G20 finance ministers frontier AI models are the most immediate threat to financial stability — citing agent hacking incidents and new cyber economics. What builders should harden now.
Gemini Notebook Interactive Reports leak: embed Studio content in prompt-built research reports. Spotted Aug 30, 2026 — not live yet.
Use iCity for procedural layout, then validate a representative export and the final scene against the camera, game, or simulation task.
NickDevFE's img2threejs v1.5.1 turns a 2D image into a playable Three.js character — 97.5K triangles, 41-bone rig, 19 combat clips, measured VFX — with no Blender export and no runtime GLB fetch.
LeVJEPA matches V-JEPA 2 at 5.6–20.8× less video pretraining compute — single encoder, 95% token drop, block-causal by default.
