Founder of explainx.ai and AI educator
Yash Thakker
Yash Thakker is the founder of explainx.ai. His work focuses on AI education, product development, and practical uses of generative AI.
About Yash Thakker
Yash Thakker is an AI instructor and product builder who founded explainx.ai in 2023. He teaches live generative AI workshops and creates courses on Udemy and Coursera, covering AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, AI tools, and product development.
Before founding explainx.ai, he worked in software development and product roles at companies including SDL, IDfy, Fynd, and PixelBin. His work also includes AI products such as Olly.social.
His personal website reports more than 350,000 students taught and over 50 courses. These figures are self-reported and were checked on September 15, 2026.
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- AI Maker Bootcamp: For People Who Want to Actually Build with AI →
Most "learn to build with AI" options are either a single workshop (not enough time to build a real portfolio) or a 9-month technical bootcamp (way more than most people need). AI Maker sits in between — 8 weeks, live, hands-on, and built specifically for people who want to ship real AI-powered products, not just talk about AI.
- How to Become an AI Instructor and Get Paid to Teach Live Workshops →
Experts are increasingly moving away from one-off self-paced courses toward live, cohort-based teaching — because it monetizes reputation directly and gets better completion rates than a video course nobody finishes. Independent AI workshop operators are charging $1,500-$4,000 per session. Here's what it actually takes to become an AI instructor, what the pay looks like, and how to apply to teach live on explainx.ai.
- Top Generative AI Workshops in 2026: Complete Guide →
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- Top Generative AI Workshops for Software Developers in 2026 →
Developer-focused generative AI training is either free-but-single-session (Anthropic, Google) or genuinely deep but ten times the price and five times the time commitment (Maven's AI Engineering Buildcamp). We ranked the options — starting with explainx.ai's AI Builder Workshop, the only one that gets a working developer to a deployed AI agent and full-stack app in two weeks at an accessible price.
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