What is Eureka Labs AI?

Andrej Karpathy founds Eureka Labs AI. 🦄 Can Generative AI usher in new EdTech experiences?

Image Credits: Eureka Labs | Andrej Karpathy

Hello Everyone,

Among AI evangelists 🦄 Andrej Karpathy is in distinct company. Having worked at OpenAI and Tesla, Andrej Karpathy is a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, and his popularity is enormous.

He’s also tangibly contributed to the democratization of AI with many free online seminars and courses on YouTube. When he left his role at Tesla many speculated online with what he would do next. It’s not surprising in 2024, to see him found his own startup.

Eureka Labs 💡

Andrej Karpathy is launching a new AI Education company called Eureka labs.

“We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way.

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.

However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable. The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them. This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform.

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 amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted).

Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together. Today, we are heads down building LLM101n, but we look forward to a future where AI is a key technology for increasing human potential. What would you like to learn?” - Source.

Github: https://github.com/EurekaLabsAI

Website: https://eurekalabs.ai/

Generative and Ed-Tech 🌏

• Announced on July 16, 2024, Eureka Labs aims to revolutionize education by combining human expertise with AI teaching assistants to enhance and expand course materials designed by human teachers.

Key features of Eureka Labs include:

• AI Teaching Assistants: These AI assistants will support human teachers by guiding students through course materials, making learning more accessible and personalized.

• First Product - LLM101n: The company's initial offering is an undergraduate-level course that teaches students how to train their own AI systems. This course will be available online and through both digital and physical cohorts.

• AI-Native Platform: Built from the ground up with AI at its core, Eureka Labs aims to create a symbiotic relationship between human teachers and AI, allowing for scalable and efficient education.

• Vision for the Future: Karpathy envisions a future where anyone can learn anything with the help of AI, expanding both the reach and extent of education5.

Eureka Labs is still in its early stages, with plans to build and test the efficacy of integrating AI assistants into classrooms. The company has not yet disclosed its business model or funding source.

I am surprised Ed-Tech hasn’t had many significant Generative AI pushes so far since the arrival of ChatGPT. Many of the most active users of ChatGPT are of course students and teachers already.

“Eureka Labs aims to create a symbiotic relationship between human teachers and AI, allowing for scalable and efficient education.”

• Let’s go a bit deeper. Currently their Discord already has 30k people.