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.
Unsloth shrank Kimi K3 from 1.56TB to 594GB with 1-bit dynamic quantization — ~78.9% accuracy retained. Runs on a Mac Studio with 128GB RAM. Full guide.
LangChain Deep Agents v0.7 (July 29, 2026): base system prompt removed, tool descriptions cut 43%, todos opt-in — 65% fewer base input tokens.
MiniMax H3 shipped as open weights Aug 3, 2026 — #1 on Artificial Analysis video editing, but the license excludes the US, EU, UK, South Korea.
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% to $0.20/$1.20 per 1M tokens, Terra 20% to $2/$12, and added a 2.5x-faster Fast mode for Sol. Full pricing breakdown.
A viral clip shows Claude Opus 5 rebuilding Pokémon's opening scene in 3D. 502K views, zero repo, zero prompt — and a starter reveal people call disturbing.
Perplexity Computer Projects now document shared files, project Brain, roles, Slack/Teams channels, connectors, skills, limits, and credit costs.
shadcn previewed Coppermind, a background app that saves anything you select with a double Shift tap — from ChatGPT, your browser, editor, or terminal.
LLM parameters are learned weights. Total vs active MoE, memory math, and the top 10 disclosed model sizes as of July 2026 — Kimi K3 2.8T to Qwen 3.5.
NYT: AI firms recruit electricians and carpenters for data-center buildout. Boom-bust risk, housing competition, union pay, liquid-cooling plumbing ahead.
Science covers a bioRxiv analysis: >50% of AI unicorns never lead a paper; they were ~1/1000 of 2025 AI pubs. OpenAI dominates citations. Blogification.
Jul 29, 2026: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers — free GPT-5.6 Sol Pro access for 10,000 faculty/postdocs now, 100,000 by 2027, part of a $250M science initiative. explainx.ai maps eligibility, features, and the Claude for Teachers comparison.
GCC declines legally significant (~15+ line) LLM-generated patches, allows LLM research and optional LLM test cases. LWN + HN: enforceability, copyright.
