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.
Jul 16, 2026: DoorDash cofounder Andy Fang opened dd-cli limited beta — search stores, compare deals, checkout from agents on macOS US/Canada. Trust boundaries, MCP patterns, and builder guardrails on explainx.ai.
10 runs, 2 fixed attractors, zero shooters. What Fable's video game picks say about epistemic tenderness, ontology, and model personality.
GeForce NOW India goes live July 15, 2026 — RTX 5080 Ultimate, UPI, Day Passes, tier pricing from free to ₹1,999/mo. Queues, storage, and who should subscribe.
Google Gemma team shipped FA4 on Hopper (+25–70% prefill), chat template fixes, tool-calling patches, and sharper vision OCR. Is this Gemma 4.1? vs Qwen 3.6 27B.
Grok Build is open source on GitHub — Apache 2.0, ~4.5K stars, no external PRs. Install command, Rust build steps, ZDR privacy, vs Codex and OpenCode.
IBM celebrated National AI Day, July 16, 2026, with a binary-only post that decodes to "Happy National AI Day." Here's the actual decode, why National AI Day exists, and IBM's real 100+ year claim to the AI conversation.
Inkling: 975B MoE open weights, Tinker fine-tuning, effort dial, multimodal. SWE-bench 77.6%, not #1 overall — best customization base. July 2026 guide.
Kimi K3 is Moonshot's most capable model — 2.8T parameters, 1M-token context, native vision, and reasoning_effort thinking mode. Official API pricing, Python examples, and limits from platform.kimi.ai docs.
Bloomberg (Jul 15): OnePlus may cease US/Europe ops this week, exit India by 2027. OnePlus India denies — business as usual. explainx.ai maps timeline, BBK context, and what exit means for owners.
Tibo @thsottiaux confirms GPT-5.6 Codex deleted user home directories when full access bypassed sandboxing. Root causes, harness fixes, and builder guardrails for July 16, 2026.
Thariq (@trq212) on Claude Code: thin prompts, thick artifacts, thin skills. Good vs bad SKILL.md examples, progressive disclosure, vs Garry Tan harness.
Fountain 0 announced Odysseus: The Fall — 135 min, fully AI-generated, $9.99 stream later summer 2026. How it differs from Nolan's Odyssey and what X said.
