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.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is $30/user/month on top of a qualifying base plan — true all-in cost runs $66-$90/user/month. Full pricing, seat rules, and ROI math.
Copilot in Excel writes formulas, analyzes data, and runs Python from natural-language prompts — but only on Tables it can see. Prompts, setup, and the limits you must verify.
How Copilot in Teams generates live meeting notes, catches you up if you join late, and pushes recaps to Outlook — plus what it can't do without transcription and admin approval.
Copilot in Word drafts from a prompt plus reference files, rewrites tone, summarizes long reports, and now runs Agent Mode to self-revise a draft. Prompts, setup, and honest limits for office workers.
MiniMax Design (H3) is live: a desktop creative agent bundling H3 video, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro. Real pricing ($8.4-$215/mo) and what it does.
NVIDIA AVO scored 100.00 RHAE on ARC-AGI-3's 25-environment public set, 183/183 levels, 6,624 actions. Same agent that evolved GPU kernels. Public set only — not a controlled ablation. Full breakdown.
Tibo Sottiaux confirms Codex crossed 20M active users and credits every Codex + ChatGPT Work user a banked reset. explainx.ai maps the timeline, what banked means, and the same-day sub2api investigation.
gpt-image-2 now supports background="transparent" for native alpha PNGs — campaigns, slides, templates, merch. API preview walkthrough (Aug 2026).
A practical guide to OpenRouter model routing for enterprises — dynamic routing rules, fallback chains, model cascades, spend dashboards, and BYOK, with a sample routing config and the real latency/compliance tradeoffs.
Ox Alpha is OpenRouter's new free stealth model: 1M context, tool calling, multimodal input. Who made it, retention vs training, and how to try it.
OpenRouter charges no markup on tokens but adds 5.5% on card top-ups. Direct APIs skip that fee but cost you fallback and multi-model testing. Full enterprise decision framework.
10 real things people built with Ox Alpha: fluid simulations, 3D scenes, landing pages, a coding benchmark run, and more — with sources and caveats.
