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.
Fermisense’s GRPO fine-tune of a 9B open model hit 87.3% on catalog review vs 76.9% for the best frontier setup — at ~$0.50 per 1,000 listings. When to own.
Japan’s Do Hiemon Box (ど冷えもんBOX) by SDRS and Trusco cools one person with ~5°C air in a 15°C booth. Specs, ~¥1.5M price, 10-minute claim, and heat-wave context.
Moonshot released free public Kimi K3 weights July 26, 2026 — 2.8T params, 1M context. Together AI and Modal shipped day-0 hosting access.
Nvidia’s first U.S.-made GB300 AI chips at TSMC Arizona, Amkor’s $1.5B packaging prepayment, Wistron Texas systems, and why CoWoS still decides “Made in USA.”
Matthew Saltz’s HN hit: OpenCode on a private Modal Kimi K3 endpoint felt freeing. What the thread got right about harnesses, scoped prompts, and cost.
Axios: Sam Altman is in Washington previewing OpenAI's newest model and pushing for fast government approval — days after OpenAI confirmed ~17,000 hacking-style actions against Hugging Face went undetected for a week.
Run Sakana Fugu in Claude Code. Setup, model mappings, pricing, privacy controls, compatibility limits, and multi-agent trade-offs.
Sam Altman says we’re close to an AI “genie that can grant any wish.” Relentless podcast decode, Polymarket virality, and why confident wrong answers still kill trust.
Vercel Labs' scriptc compiles TypeScript to native binaries with no Node.js or V8 — 2ms startup, 178KB output. HN says it was built by AI agents in a week, and an expert calls the architecture "idiotic." Here's the full story.
A $600/day Claude agent bill reconstructed into tokens, context replay, retries, tool calls, concurrency, and the unit economics required to justify it.
A realistic AI agent cost model covering tokens, repeated context, retries, search, tools, and monthly bills across light, serious, and heavy workflows.
A verified 2026 AI ban timeline: Fable 5 export controls, GPT-5.6 gating, Chinese open-weight proposals, model safeguards, and what shipped.
