The startup aims to create virtual teaching assistants using generative AI.
Andrej Karpathy, who directed artificial intelligence for Tesla and co-founded OpenAI, is launching startup Eureka Labs to build “a new kind of school that is AI native,” according to a July 16 social media post on the X platform.
Eureka is creating virtual teaching assistants powered by generative AI to bring top courses to vastly more students without sacrificing the personalized interactions typical of in-person learning. The startup’s ultimate goal is to bring elite educators and coursework to students throughout the world, regardless of barriers such as geography and language.
“Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world’s languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand,” Karpathy said in the post. “However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable.”
