Andrej Karpathy, former AI director at Tesla and co-founder of OpenAI, has launched Eureka Labs, a startup focused on creating “a new kind of school that is AI native.” Announced in a July 16 social media post on the X platform, Eureka Labs aims to build virtual teaching assistants using generative AI to deliver top courses to a wider student audience while maintaining the personalized interactions typical of in-person learning.

Eureka’s goal is to bring elite educators and coursework to students worldwide, overcoming barriers such as geography and language. Karpathy highlighted the scarcity of subject matter experts who are passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient, and fluent in all languages. He emphasized that recent advances in generative AI make the creation of such learning experiences feasible.

Eureka’s first product will be an undergraduate AI course called LLM101n, which will guide students through training an AI similar to the AI Teaching Assistant. The course will feature online materials and include both digital and physical cohorts, enabling students to progress in small groups.

LLM101n will be the first course offered by Eureka. Source: Github

“The teacher designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged, and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant optimized to help guide the students,” Karpathy explained.

Karpathy, who has extensive experience in AI, previously led the development of Tesla’s Autopilot technology and co-founded OpenAI, specializing in deep learning and computer vision. He believes that if successful, Eureka Labs will make it easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education’s reach and scope beyond current possibilities.

Source: Cointelegraph