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.
Dognosis combined trained dogs with a Bayesian fusion model to hit 90.8% sensitivity, 91.3% specificity, and 0.962 AUC detecting cancer from breath in a 1,502-person JCO trial. Here's how the AI layer actually works.
ExploitBench scores AI exploit generation on 41 V8 bugs across a five-tier ladder. Anthropic's Mythos Preview hit code execution on 21 of 41 CVEs.
AutomationBench, Code Arena, DeepSWE, and FrontierCode compared across Gemini 3.7 Flash, Sonnet 5, and GPT-5.6 Terra, with Grok 4.6 cross-referenced from a separate source.
GLM-5.3 confirmed August 14, 2026: 743B base model, CyberGym and AutomationBench leader, GLM Coding Plan access now — open weights staged behind safety review.
USA Today, Reddit, Reuters weigh blocking Google as traffic falls 25-55%. What's verified, what's inflated, and the cost of blocking Googlebot.
A Blind survey of 1,552 India-based professionals found 66% of AI/ML workers expect team layoffs within 3-6 months — but sales and marketing ranked higher, and engineers felt safest. Here's what the numbers show.
OpenAI's Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 tok/sec via Cerebras — 14x normal speed. Select API customers only, pricing undisclosed.
Perplexity's Agent API added Grok 4.6 in August 2026. Verified pricing shows it's 80-88% cheaper than Fable 5, not 60% — the decision framework inside.
Sakana Chat ships Fugu, a new Namazu generation, sandboxed Python, and attachments. Japanese-first vibe coding without an API key.
SpaceX officially closed its $60B acquisition of Cursor on August 14, 2026. Cursor now sits inside the SpaceXAI/Grok org — here's what closes vs. what Musk announced in June, and what it means for Claude access in Cursor.
Sudo Aquarelle is a browser watercolor simulator built with Claude Code on real Kubelka-Munk pigment physics and a 1997 SIGGRAPH paper. It hit 2.9K upvotes on r/ClaudeAI — here's how it works and what to steal from it.
X open-sourced For You ranking code Aug 13, 2026 and shipped a label transparency tool. See the disclosed weight tables and what changes reach.
