Why this site exists
Explanex started with a frustration, not a business plan.
Every time a new AI story broke, we’d end up reading four or five different articles and somehow come away more confused than when we started. One site would throw around a big number with no source in sight. Another would bury a fairly simple idea under three paragraphs of jargon. A third would just repackage a company’s press release and call it reporting.
We wanted something different — an explanation you could actually trust, written the way we’d explain it to a friend over coffee, with the numbers checked against wherever they actually came from. A company’s own environmental report. An IEA study. A peer-reviewed paper. Not another blog’s paraphrase of a paraphrase.
That’s still the whole idea behind Explanex. No filler, no recycled talking points, and no assuming you need a computer science degree to follow along.
What we cover
AI, in plain terms
How the models actually work, what they cost to run — in compute, energy, and water — and what’s genuinely changing versus what’s just marketing.
Tech trends without the hype
New tools and platforms explained for what they actually do, not what a launch keynote promised they’d do.
The numbers behind the news
When a headline makes a claim that needs a source, we go find that source — instead of repeating the headline.
“If we can’t explain it simply, we haven’t understood it well enough to publish it yet.”
— the standard every Explanex article is held to
How we work
Primary sources only
Company reports, research papers, and official data — never someone else’s summary of them.
Fact-checked before publishing
Every number gets verified and every source gets linked, so you can check it yourself too.
Written in plain language
If an idea can’t survive being explained simply, we rewrite it until it can.
What we promise you
We’ll tell you where a number actually came from.
We’ll say “we don’t know” before we’ll guess.
We’ll never explain something in a way that makes you feel behind for not already knowing it.
Explanex is still young and still growing — a small team that just wants technology explained properly for once. If that sounds like your kind of site, stick around.
— The Explanex team