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.
Learn what LLM fine-tuning is, how supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, LoRA, and knowledge distillation work, and when to use fine-tuning vs RAG vs prompting. Practical guide with dataset prep, hyperparameters, and 2026 API landscape.
Complete guide to multimodal AI: architecture, history, how models see images and hear audio, top models in 2026 (GPT-4o, Gemini Omni, Claude Fable 5), and what multimodal still cannot fix.
Learn how temperature, top-p nucleus sampling, top-k, and min-p control LLM outputs at inference time. Worked examples, use-case tables, and 2026 provider guidance for getting sampling parameters right every time.
Deep guide to transformer architecture: self-attention, multi-head attention, positional encoding, encoder vs decoder, scaling laws, and MoE extensions powering every 2026 frontier LLM.
Comprehensive guide to zero-shot, few-shot, one-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting techniques. Includes concrete examples, comparison tables, self-consistency, Tree of Thought, and when each technique applies.
A $200 ChatGPT Pro can cost OpenAI $14,000 per SemiAnalysis. Full comparison of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot plans at $20 and $200 tiers.
Complete 2026 guide to building a personal AI system on your own hardware. Covers best open-source models, inference engines (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp), hardware tiers, and workflow setups for coding, marketing, and productivity.
Complete 2026 comparison of every frontier closed-source AI model and its best local open-source alternative. Real benchmarks, pricing, and decision framework for GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and o3.
Meet Autumn, the Open Duck Mini robot running Gemma 4 E2B on a Raspberry Pi 5 with no cloud needed. Full breakdown of the hardware, speech stack, and what comes next for on-device robotics.
GLM-5.2 vs Fable 5 — China open-source response to export ban. Fable 5 live again July 1. GPT-5.6 GA around the corner.
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna rolling out in ChatGPT, Codex, API. ALE 53.6, AA Coding Index 80.0, Ultra mode. Benchmarks, pricing, access.
Kimi K2.7-Code deep dive: 384-expert MoE, benchmark tables vs Opus/GPT-5.5, MCP scores, API pricing, self-hosting, Kimi Code CLI, and Fable 5 alternative.
