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.
@ClaudeDevs Aug 28, 2026: type /resume to open any CLI-started Claude Code session in the desktop app with full conversation and context intact. What it does, what is still missing, and how it compares to Codex.
Claude Code's Aug 29, 2026 update: CLI starts before the sandbox loads, Linux download drops to ~75 MB, and /cost, /usage, and /tasks get new token detail.
Diffusion Studio open-sourced a video editor where every edit is JSX/TS code — the source of truth an agent can read, diff, and re-run. What it fixes, what it doesn't.
Firecrawl's keyless relaunch: free web search and scrape for AI agents, no API key. The real tradeoffs vs Exa, rate limits, and robots/ToS caveats.
Google DeepMind's execution-grounded Co-Scientist drove a CVD reactor, grew monolayer MoS2 in one attempt, and cut severe methodology errors from 100% to 24%.
A federal judge ruled Aug 27, 2026 that the Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic for its usage-policy red lines. What it means for picking models under government contracts.
Muse Image hits the Meta Model API at $0.01/image (Aug 28, 2026), ~1,280 Arena Elo — on the Pareto frontier for cheap production image generation.
MiniMax Fast H3 v1 claims a ~14x speedup on NVIDIA Blackwell for real-time open video generation. What it unlocks for builders, and the caveats.
OpenAI previewed an Astra "invents new things" build to VIPs around Aug 28, 2026. Unverified, sparse coverage. What real novel-invention evidence looks like.
OpenAI cuts off Cursor Nov 12; Truell says 5% traffic. Anthropic expands Claude in Cursor. Practitioner migration plan for GPT-5.x and Codex users.
OpenAI''s WebMCP Challenge runs on Devpost with a Sept 3 2026 deadline. What WebMCP is, how it differs from MCP, and what makes a winning submission.
OpenCode Go previews Qwen3.8-Flash 125B, a fast open-weight MoE that also previews Qwen4 architecture. Cost, latency, quality expectations and caveats.
