They are creating a school called “Native in AI” that wants to revolutionize education.

AI has been posing challenges for schools and educational institutions since ChatGPT has just launched, but a new education startup is embracing AI rather than resisting it. Just months after leaving OpenAI, which he helped found, artificial intelligence researcher Andrej Karpathy has announced the launch of his new “AI+Education” startup, Eureka Labs.

Karpathy calls Eureka Labs “a new kind of school, native to AI,” with the explicit goal of developing a “teacher + AI symbiosis” that will allow “anyone to learn anything.” Imagine an education system built from the ground up with AI as its core principle, where human teachers design lesson plans and are augmented by digital assistants in the classroom.

⚡️ I am happy to announce that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
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We, Eureka Labs, are building a new type of school based on artificial intelligence.

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— Andrey Karpathy (@karpathy) July 16, 2024

“In the case of physics, one can imagine working with very high-quality teaching materials at the same time [el físico teórico Richard] “Feynman, who will be with you every step of the way,” Karpathy wrote in his post X, echoing the sentiments Steve Job1985.

“I hope that in our lifetime,” Jobs told an unnamed audience at the dinner, “we will be able to create a new kind of tool, an interactive client… When the next Aristotle lives, we will be able to capture that Aristotle’s vision of the underlying world in a computer. And someday a student will be able not only to read the words that Aristotle wrote, but to ask Aristotle a question. And get an answer.

To achieve this lofty goal, Eureka Labs plans to launch LLM101n, an undergraduate course that teaches students how to build their own AI, in this case a tiny version of a full-fledged AI teaching assistant. The company plans to launch the course online and create study groups, both digital and physical, so people can take it together. It’s not yet known how much such a course might cost, when it would be available, or whether the company has yet studied the effectiveness of its own AI training method. A 2022 study from Georgia State University suggests it has.

Eureka Labs is entering an already crowded field that has grown significantly since ChatGPT was first released and which UNESCO believes “has the potential to solve some of the biggest challenges in education today, [y] innovative teaching and learning methods.

Future AI-powered learning tools may include AI-generated educational games tailored to each student’s learning style and needs, adaptive learning platforms, intelligent digital tutors, and automated assessment and feedback systems.

Eureka Labs isn’t alone in its push into AI education. Google has announced Gemini for Class last month, and AI apps like Caktus are designed specifically for students.