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.
Nebius raised Token Factory GPU prices 16-20%, its second hike this year. What's driving it, and how to decide whether to switch providers.
OpenAI proposed giving third-party assessors deep access across training, evaluation, and deployment. What the proposal actually commits to.
CopilotKit's OpenMuse: an MIT-licensed personal agent with a browser, Linux terminal, and Gmail/Calendar integration. What's real vs roadmap.
Opus 5.5 changed how you should prompt Claude for work. Practice the new workflow live in explainx.ai's Claude for Work workshop, Oct 3-4.
From a formally-verified SDK to a reverse CAPTCHA — 10 real, documented things builders shipped with Claude Opus 5.5 in its first 24 hours.
Perplexity's new training method cut tool-call failures 21.2% in a live A/B test by learning from its own errors with validated hints.
Rigel, a 2.3B model, reportedly matches Llama-3.2-3B using under 1% of comparable pretraining compute. What the claim says, and what to verify.
Stripe upgraded 7.8M hosted checkout pages to cut AI agent token use 42%. What changed, and why it matters for agents navigating checkout.
Anthropic's Thariq argues smarter models should mean more time understanding users, not more shipped features. The argument and pushback.
Unreal Labs' new harness claims 40% cost savings over Codex via async tool calls. Benchmarks, architecture, and the Epic name confusion.
Z.ai open-sourced ZCode after its default config was found uploading user codebases to Alibaba Cloud. What happened, and what to check.
a16z's Horowitz Andreessen Academy: $35M, tuition-free, ages 16-22, AI and startup focus, co-ops at Anthropic/Meta/Stripe. Founding Class fall 2027.
