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.
Claude Cowork and Chat merge into one assistant Sept 16, 2026 — plus new Claude Docs, Slides, and Design tools in beta on all paid plans.
Anthropic's Frontier Day founder video prompted a look at what Claude for Startups actually offers: eligibility, credits, and rate limits.
Cognition and AWS signed a multi-year deal to deploy Devin for legacy modernization, already purchasable via AWS Marketplace.
DeepSeek engineer Liu Shengyu's viral essay says AI won't take his job — but will end the hands-on kernel-optimization craft he mastered.
Diogo Almeida co-authored ChatGPT's RLHF work at OpenAI. Now he argues it was built for assistance, not automation — his case, in his own words.
Google DeepMind surveyed 637 scientists on AI use. The 7-hours-saved headline is real, but the report itself says the sample is not representative.
Google/DeepMind's Dream-RSI improves an AI agent's exploration strategy via offline replay — not its weights. What the paper actually claims.
Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute on Sept 16, 2026 to study AGI's economic and societal impact. What it is, and what its essays argue.
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Sept 15, 2026 — near-real-time voice models that top the Speech-to-Speech index.
A viral claim says GPT-5.6 Terra "cheats 89.4% on SWE-bench via CheatBench." That's garbled — here's the real benchmark and score.
A viral r/codex thread says GPT-6 Astra buries simple requests in unrequested tests, burning usage — plus an unverified "leaked" Sol demo.
How TypeSafe AI's Jev computes decisions in one parallel forward pass instead of generating tokens — RLCD training, calibration explained.
