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.
DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2: whole-body VLA for humanoids, ER 2 for multi-step planning and multi-robot teams, On-Device 2 with hours of adaptation.
Google Earth web adds Nano Banana 2 image generation: zoom any place, prompt, get custom scenes from satellite/aerial/3D. History, real estate, makeovers.
xAI ships Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0: AA STS 82.9%, ~60% fewer reasoning tokens, $0.08/min. grok-voice-latest flips Aug 5. Docs: tools, MCP, binary audio.
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 public-set score rose 13.3%→38.3% with retained reasoning and compaction — 6× fewer tokens. Harness vs model, vs Opus 5.
OpenAI widens HF probe: more agent escapes, METR + Redwood review, four extra credential footholds, Modal path, and pacing / oversight pressure.
Bulbul V4 adds richer emotion, natural expression and vocal range to Sarvam’s India-first TTS. Hear the demo and see what is—and is not—confirmed.
Sarvam Code is an invite-only coding agent unveiled at Epoch. Here is what its GLM-5.2 benchmark claim means—and what developers still need to verify.
Sarvam Epoch 2026 recap: Bulbul V4, Sarvam Code, the Bengaluru agenda, sovereign AI strategy, partners and claims still awaiting primary sources.
Show HN: TurboFieldfare streams MoE experts from SSD so Gemma 4 26B-A4B runs in ~2 GB on 8 GB Macs. Swift+Metal, 5–6 tok/s M2, 31–35 on M5 Pro.
Wharton Generative AI Labs open-sourced AIBO — run statistically valid prompt experiments with UI, CLI, agent skill, and MCP. 28K→126K conversations.
Anthropic’s Mythos Preview found a lattice attack halving HAWK’s strength and a Möbius Bridge speedup on 7-round AES — ~$100k each, no live systems broken.
Viral clips show robot arms cutting hair after a 3D head scan. Price claims range from ~3 yuan to “60 yen.” What is demo, what is unverified rollout.
