“Eureka!” – “I've found it!”

Andrej Karpathy ’s eureka moment just arrived with the announcement of the launch of Eureka Labs . He is now looking forward to “building a new kind of school that is AI native”.?

From being an academic researcher at Stanford, working alongside AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, ?to building products at Tesla and conducting AGI research at OpenAI, Karpathy’s contributions to the field of AI are truly commendable.?

More than anything, there is no better teacher than Karpathy . “My interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik's cubes and starting CS231n at Stanford to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series ,” he added.?

“All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my 'real job', so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time,” he added, saying that Eureka Labs is the culmination of his passion in both AI and education over two decades.?

It's a work in progress.?

Karpathy said they are working on LLM101n.?

“Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the students through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself,” he added, saying that the course materials will be available online, alongside running digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together.?

Revenue? Karpathy said he wants Eureka Labs to be a proper, self-sustaining business, but “I also really don’t want to gatekeep educational content.”?

“My default thinking is that the content itself is free and permissively licensed, the revenue comes from everything else, e.g., running the digital/physical cohorts working through the materials together, etc.,” he added.?

End goal. “If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large number of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted),” said Karpathy.?

At the Google I/O Connect in Bengaluru, Google recently announced that it is collaborating with MeitY Startup Hub to train 10,000 startups in AI.?

Google’s answer to Ola Maps? In an interesting turn of events, at the same event, Google introduced India-specific pricing for developers using the Google Maps Platform , with up to 70% lower costs on most APIs, alongside offering 90% off on select Google Maps Platform APIs for developers building for ONDC .?

Google invests in Namma Yatri. Recently, the company also invested in Namma Yatri, an open-source ride-hailing platform focussing on driver welfare and community engagement.?

Building AI Teaching Assistants?

With his latest AI education startup, Karpathy is looking at building an ideal experience for people to learn something new.?

He said that the teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged, and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant, who is optimised to help and guide the students through them. “This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform,” added Karpathy.?

Personalised AI assistants are going to be a thing in the future. If we extend that idea to education, soon we might also get personalised AI tutors who teach students according to their requirements and understanding capabilities.?

The founder of Khan Academy , Salman Khan, recently echoed similar sentiments, saying personal tutors are a necessity . “Alexander the Great had Aristotle as his personal tutor, as his teacher. That's what world-class looks like,” he added.?

This will solve Bloom's Sigma 2 problem.?

Bloom's research found that students who were taught one-on-one or in small groups and received regular feedback performed two standard deviations (2 sigma) better than their peers who received traditional classroom instruction.

Musk's private school, Ad Astra , which he created for his children, gives a rough idea of how the future will look. It is built inside the SpaceX campus and has partnered with Synthesis , founded by Joshua Dahn . Synthesis has created an AI tutor that teaches students complex concepts of maths through personalised games and AI tools.

In another update, Mistral AI recently launched MathΣtral , a specialised 7B model for advanced mathematical reasoning and scientific exploration, commemorating Archimedes' 2311th anniversary and achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks like MATH and MMLU.

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Google I/O Connect Highlights?

• Google expanded access to its Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemma 2 models for Indian developers, introducing a 2 million token context window for extensive data analysis.?
• The tech giant also showcased how its Gemini AI is driving innovation for Indian startups Miko AI, Karya , and Cropin .?
• It also launched IndicGenBench to benchmark Indic LLMs across 29 languages , alongside initiatives like open-sourcing DeepMind’s CALM and expanding Project Vaani to enhance Indic language capabilities.