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.
OpenAI confirmed an internal model resolved Navier-Stokes plus 100+ open math problems, and formed an IAS-hosted advisory group after Fields Medalist criticism.
LangSmith Gateway hosts SemIf (semif-qwen3.5-4b) free through Sept 28, 2026 on US plans — first hosted decision model, System One API, no Gateway Credits.
Shopify and Meta linked Muse to Shop Pay and Shopify Catalog on Sept 21, 2026 — the disclosed agentic-checkout path Amazon blocked days earlier.
A viral essay argues invisible AI watermarks like SynthID deserve a new name: "spymarks." Here's the argument and the pushback.
Brex payments data shows startups start on closed models, then fine-tune open-weight ones as they scale. Harvey recovered margin this way.
US AI incident line + China truce extension (Sept 2026). Xi frontier-model notifications — what builders must track.
Xiaomi shipped MiMo-V2.6 Flash and Pro with full open weights and a public RL training dashboard, topping the intelligence-vs-cost frontier on AA.
A #1 Hacker News disclosure shows ChatGPT sets a cross-site ad-tracking cookie called __obi. Here's the mechanism, what data it carries, and how to block it.
A digest claims Claude factored RSA-896, a 270-digit number never publicly broken. No source exists yet — what to verify, why RSA-2048 stays safe either way.
A Reddit post claims Anthropic is stealth testing Opus 5.5 as claude-wafer-eap, landing Tuesday. No source, no proof — here's what's real.
Python Workers are GA on Cloudflare — native FastAPI, Django, and Flask, Hyperdrive Postgres/MySQL, and PEP 783's new PyEmscripten wheel standard.
DocJev, from LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu, uses Jev to classify and split documents — reportedly 6x faster, with a small, flagged accuracy pilot.
